The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has condemned the aborted terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow. In a telephone conversation with the new British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, UAE Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan voiced a strong condemnation of the botched strikes. Sheikh Abdullah also expressed the UAE's solidarity with Britain at this particular time, the UAE news agency "WAM," reported. The UAE Foreign Minister congratulated his British counterpart for assuming his new post, and expressed his hope that UAE-British relations would grow even stronger.