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please welcome omar safe ghobash. ( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: welcome to the show. >> thank youeat for me. i don't often get to chat to ambassadors and diplomats, especially someone who is an ambassador to russia. >> an interesting place. >> trevor: i'm sure it is. i'm really sure it is. let's talk a little bit about that. you are the ambassador of the u.a.e. to russia at a time when russia seems to be, you know-- what's the way i can phrase it-- the (bleep) in the world is the best way i can put it. how do you liase between them and your country? >> causing a (bleep) in the world is one way of looking at it. i would say they're exerting influence in the region and it's extremely important for us to be able to speak to them to understand exactly what they're trying to do. and there are a couple of different versions of what they're trying to do. one of the versions is they're trying to impose their own imperial might through a great russian empire. the other one, which i'm more inclined to believe because-- because, you know, come coming from the region, is that they are trying