RAS AL KHAIMAH — Sheikh Saud Bin Saqr Al Qasimi, the ruler of Ras Al Khaimah, one of the seven emirates in the United Arab Emirates, has responded to a request from a small boy to facilitate the return of his mother, who is stranded in the United Kingdom duo to the coronavirus pandemic, to the UAE. In an emotive letter to the RAK ruler, Archie Appleyard, who is a Grade-1 student at RAK Academy Al Hamra, appealed for his mother’s return. "It has been 52 sleeps now that I have been apart from my mother," the boy said in his letter. "I feel so sad because we have never been apart for this long and all I dream and wish for is my mummy"s return," he wrote. In response to the boy’s letter, Sheikh Saud Bin Saqr, who is also a member of the UAE’s Supreme Council, wrote back saying: "I was pleased today to respond to a letter from Archie, the British boy whose mother was prevented from returning from the UK to Ras Al Khaimah due to the current circumstances." On his Instagram account, the RAK ruler said: "We worked to help reunite him with his mother at the earliest opportunity, highlighting on Zayed Humanitarian Day that the UAE will always be a beacon of humanity in this world." — WAM