His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, said that on this tragic day we take back the biggest lesson that we learned from our ancestors and fathers that the pride of the homeland is gaining and making with the arms and minds of its children, and that its realization depends on their bids and grandfather, their diligence and awareness and their commitment to safeguard their gains and strengthen their nation And getting around their leaders.
His Highness said in a speech through the magazine "Shield of the homeland" on the occasion of the 48th National Day of the State - "I am proud and filled with happiness as I celebrate with the sons and daughters of the UAE our 48th National Day, and year after year we look around on this day and see prosperity widens, and achievements are growing, Progress is continuing throughout our country and our lives. "
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`` I am proud and filled with happiness as I celebrate with the sons and daughters of the UAE our 48th National Day, and year after year we look around on this day and see prosperity widening, achievements grow, and progress continues throughout our country and the affairs of our lives.
Today, we enjoy the successes of our Emirati model, the second of December 1971 in us, in which we have achieved the independence of our country, and we regained the dignity of our country, and took the reins of our own hands, and from it began major operations in building our state, our human and our national identity, and with it began the journey of the transition of our society from dispersion to unity, Ignorance to knowledge, and from space in progress to progress and development, and isolation from our world imposed on our homeland to a glowing presence and active participation in his movement and future.
Our present owes its prosperity to the achievement of our founding fathers on the 2nd of December.If it was not for the union they had established, we would not have been able to build an effective and capable self-force with all its human, economic, military, security, scientific and cultural components, and our country would not have won this respectable place in our region and in our world.
On this tragic day we take back the biggest lesson that we learned from our ancestors and fathers that the pride of the homelands is acquired and manufactured with the arms and minds of its children, and that its realization depends on their tenders, grandfather, diligence, awareness and commitment to safeguard their gains, strengthen their state, strengthen the unity of their home and wrap them around their leaders.
Today, we, the sons and daughters of the UAE, renew our pledge to be in the good faith of our leaders, to represent their values and uphold their principles, and to inspire their ambitions as we strive with all our energies to serve our nation and our people. We know that this era is responsible and heavy, our state is young, the proportion of youth and young people in our society predominates, and the future of our country will be as we are. I am confident that it will be bright, brilliant and dear, as the evidence of our present beckons for our future, and our leaders have not left a door to enable us to open it, nor a future horizon except for their boat, and no platform to unleash the energies of the sons and daughters of the UAE except and built it. My account is that our young men and women are committed to themselves and their leaders to move forward in the development of themselves and their knowledge, and the pursuit of quality and perfection in their work, and seize the wide opportunities available to them. And how not to be so and their cohorts take efficiently and well-deserved highest responsibilities, roaming space, and making satellites, and run nuclear power plants, and settle the civil and military industries advanced and precise, working on the latest weapons, and fight the toughest battles, and achieve victories and martyrdom.
December 2 will remain a unique and inspiring day, unlike another. We are proud of the fathers of the foundation, and we are proud of the fathers of empowerment; His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and my big brother His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and their fellow members of the Supreme Council of the Union, the rulers of the UAE.
I congratulate our leaders and the sons and daughters of our people by this blessed day, and ask God Almighty to perpetuate our innumerable grace, that he is an answering supplicant.