Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Emirates' Foreign Minister (FM) has met with a number of foreign ministers, on the sidelines of the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly. Among those he met with, separately and respectively, are Augusto Santos Silva, the Portugal's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Zohrab Mnatsakanyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, Roberto Ampuero, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile, Alan Peter Cayetano, Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Philippines, Ekaterina Zaharieva, Foreign Minister of Bulgaria and Nikos Christodoulidis, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Cyprus. During these encounters, ways to enhance bilateral ties, in various fields, between the Emirates and their respective countries, were discussed, in addition to exchanging views on a number regional and international issues of common interest.