DUBAI  - The United Arab Emirates is cooperating with Russia to buy Russian nuclear fuel, state-run news agency (WAM) quoted the UAE's Minister of Energy and Industry as saying on Monday.

"There is cooperation between the two countries to buy Russian nuclear fuel in relation to the UAE's peaceful programme for nuclear energy," Energy Minister Suhail al-Mazrouei said.

 

(Reporting by Dahlia Nehme; Editing by Alex Richardson) ((dahlia.nehme@thomsonreuters.com;))