Ellen Laipson quoted in USNI News on Middle East Alliances with the US

Looking ahead to Monday’s United States-Gulf Cooperation Council summit meeting at Camp David, the ambassador from the United Arab Emirates to the U.S. said the talks would focus on more than the ongoing multi-lateral nuclear talks with Iran, United Arab Emirates ambassador to the U.S. Yousef al Otaibi, said on Thursday.

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But Ellen Laipson of the Stimson Center urged caution. “We can’t identify completely with the Arab position” while “we are trying to bring Iran in from the cold.”

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