New Delhi: The UAE has reaffirmed its categorical rejection of what it described as Iranian claims and attempts to justify terrorist attacks targeting the country and other states in the region, during the BRICS Foreign Ministers’ Meeting held in New Delhi.

Khalifa Shaheen Al Marar, Minister of State, said the attacks constituted a “flagrant violation” of the United Nations Charter, international law and the principles of good neighbourliness, stressing the UAE’s firm rejection of any allegations or threats affecting its sovereignty, national security or independent decision-making.

Al Marar said the UAE retains its full sovereign, legal, diplomatic and military rights in confronting any threat, allegation or hostile act, adding that attempts to exert pressure, level accusations or promote what he described as malicious claims would not alter the country’s established positions or deter it from protecting its national interests and sovereignty.

According to Minister Khalifa, the UAE has been subjected to…