Lana Nusseibeh led the group from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to the Munich Security Conference. She is the Assistant Minister for Political Affairs and the Foreign Minister’s representative to the EU. This event, which happens every year, brought together heads of state, ministers, and other important people to talk about international peace and security. It happened at a very important time for world relations.

During the conference, Nusseibeh had more than 35 meetings and speeches with other people from different countries. In these, she stressed how important it was for the area to calm down. She talked about how important it was to keep the ceasefire in Gaza and back attempts to make a two-state solution possible for both Palestine and Israel. She also talked about the attempts to stabilize things in Syria and Lebanon, pointing out how important they are for long-term peace and safety in the region.

Nusseibeh was also worried about the humanitarian situation in Sudan and asked the rest of the world to back a plan for a ceasefire during Ramadan that was put forward by the UAE, Ethiopia, the African Union (AU), and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD). In this context, she reaffirmed the UAE’s promise to give Sudan an extra $200 million in help, which was made on February 14, 2025, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

As Nusseibeh’s Envoy to the EU, he met with well-known members of the European Parliament and top EU officials to talk about ways to improve the relationship between the UAE and the EU, especially when it comes to free trade, which is important for both Europe and the MENA region’s economic growth and competition.

Nusseibeh took part in a panel talk put together by the Observer Research Foundation. Other well-known people who spoke included Alexander Stubb, President of Finland, and S. Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs for India. She said it was important to put money into both new and old partnerships. The UAE is a great place to do business because it is diplomatically and economically flexible, and in the past few years it has signed over 20 Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreements that back this.

Nusseibeh told countries to take the initiative to take advantage of partnership chances and build the “connective tissue” that is needed for people to work together even though the global economy is changing. She said that the UAE is looking to broaden its economic and security partnerships when long-term relationships don’t deliver the expected benefits. She called this approach “not transactional, but clear-eyed and pragmatic about the world as it is today.”

Ahmed Alattar, who is the UAE’s ambassador to Germany, Mohamed al Sahlawi, who is the UAE’s ambassador to Belgium and the EU, and Muath Alwari, who is the director of policy planning in the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs, were all in the group.