On the occasion of the 49th National Day, he stressed that joint work is a way to overcome current challenges

Mohammed bin Rashid: The second of December is our dearest and most precious day

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His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, affirmed that the second day of December will remain the most cherished and most cherished of our days, and said that “the day on which wisdom, principles and honorable goals triumphed ... and the day on which our founding fathers embodied strength and dignity. And the virtues and qualities of the people of the Emirates .. It is the day that crowned the struggle, steadfastness and success of our ancestors in preserving our land.

His Highness said in a speech delivered through the magazine "Dera Al Watan" on the occasion of the 49th National Day: "I congratulate you on the forty-ninth anniversary of the founding of our union and the establishment of our state ... and I extend with you my congratulations to my brother His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the State, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, and His Crown Prince, Deputy The Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, my brother His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and my brothers, Their Highnesses, members of the Supreme Council of the Federation, rulers of the Emirates, may God protect them all.

His Highness added: “Today, the spirit of the union runs throughout our homeland and the souls of our citizens. We recall with pride and pride our father and symbol, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, and his companion Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, and their brothers, the rulers of the Emirates, may God bless them all, and reward them for what they have given to our country and our people. And our nation .. the heritage of our fathers is eternal and alive as long as there is life on earth.

He lives in us cultivating a spirit of ambition and optimism, a catalyst for achievement, strengthening our resolve in facing challenges, and pushing the march of our homeland forward, glory and glory.

His Highness indicated: “This year 2020 was exceptional, with its surprises, ambiguities and challenges .. It was the year in which anxiety and anticipation, and sometimes amazement and fear, united 7.7 billion people who are the inhabitants of the world, so the unity of human destiny was confirmed as it was not confirmed before .. Virus A tiny unknown unknown has so far claimed about 1.4 million lives, injured nearly 60 million, and the numbers are on the rise ... and turned the global economy upside down, obstructed travel, air traffic and supply chains for food, medicine and goods, and confused the work of governments, markets, and companies, and imposed measures of embargo and closure in everywhere".

He added: “It was the year of the difficult test for countries, the test that reveals the merit of their governments, the effectiveness of their institutions, the efficacy of their procedures, and the efficiency of their preparedness to face epidemics and disasters and their consequences ... I thank God Almighty for our country's success in this test par excellence, and the superiority of our government, our institutions, and our preparations to combat epidemics and disasters. It is a superiority witnessed by the world and its specialized organizations. ”

His Highness affirmed: “This success did not come by a coincidence or a stroke of luck, as it is the legitimate son of our Emirati model that improves future foresight and places it at the heart of its strategies and plans, and prepares for every matter, and takes into account all contingencies and the worst of them ... and is keen to ensure that its governments and institutions enjoy effectiveness, flexibility and the ability to make decisions. "The appropriate at the right time .. our government and people’s performance has risen to the level of the danger of the pandemic .. Our society responded to the prevention measures appropriately ... and our relevant institutions fought a war on the pandemic.

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum said: “The pandemic has changed the patterns of human life and their ways of working ... and we have been able to adapt quickly and easily with the new patterns ... the government has instituted and successfully practiced the remote work system ... and the success extended to educational institutions and private sector companies.

The credit for this is due to three things: the first is the effectiveness of the government, its flexibility, the efficiency of its cadres, and their ability to make decisions quickly and decisively, the second is our early transformation two decades ago to an e-government, then its development into a smart government, and the third is our possession of an advanced digital infrastructure that matches the best in the world.

His Highness said: “This is how our work continued at its usual pace, sometimes at faster pace, and we went ahead with the implementation of the programs for the year of preparation for the next fifty, and we restructured the government in a way that achieves speed in decision-making and maximizes the ability to keep pace with the changes and seize the opportunities that accompany them, in order to enhance the achievements and gains of our homeland.”

His Highness added: “As we moved forward with implementing our strategic projects according to the set time schedules, the Barakah nuclear plant was put into operation, the Hope probe and the MuznSat satellite were launched, and we launched the Medical Research Center to qualify a new generation of researchers in the medical field, to produce effective vaccines against epidemics, and to conduct Research on diseases prevalent in our country ».

His Highness affirmed: “Neither the pandemic nor the global economic stagnation has altered our approach to assisting the less fortunate and support their efforts in facing the pandemic ... Our country has provided medical and relief assistance to more than 100 countries, and during our participation in the G20 summit, we affirmed the UAE's full commitment to support every effort. Its aim is to achieve the interest of the human being wherever he is, and to help mankind to pass into a new phase full of hope after overcoming a pandemic that has hindered global development efforts.

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum affirmed that “joint action is the best way to overcome the current challenges and overcome their negative repercussions, and we called for unification of resolve and wills to enable societies, especially the less fortunate, to overcome these challenges and overcome them in order to be able to continue development and meet the basic needs that guarantee the simplest Human life forms. Our common global issues such as empowering women, providing health care, climate change, providing low-cost education, and facing issues of food and water security cannot be addressed without the countries of the group acting as one hand, with one resolve, and a unified international will.

His Highness pointed out: “We learned from our fathers and our experiences that adopting new ideas and ways of working is not a difficult thing. Rather, the difficulty always lies in getting out of the old ideas and the usual ways of working. People are usually reassured of what they know and experience, and they anticipate the new and perhaps fear it .. Our confidence in our people was confidence and trust. Our people, under its leadership, is the most important factor in overcoming this difficulty. With a gradual approach, we have succeeded in reconciling our traditions with the requirements of development and modernization.

His Highness affirmed: “The mutual trust between our people and their leadership, and the consolidation of the culture of change and development and keeping pace with the new in our society, will open the doors to our country for the next fifty years in its breadth, and it will enable our young men and women and our emerging generations to achieve our vision of the Emirates Centennial, for our country to be in the first ranks among the world's most advanced countries. And prosperity ».

His Highness indicated: «After less than a month, the year 2021 will come, and we are approaching our fiftieth National Day .. We want the year 2021 to witness the great start of the next fifty years .. We want our country to be the most distinguished and the best in the quality of life .. We will continue preparing all sectors for some stage. After oil, by building a true knowledge-based economy based on innovation, creativity, modern science and technology, and investing in qualitative minds and competencies.

His Highness said: “The progress made by our country is happy and filling us with feelings of pride and contentment, but it is not enough for us .. We want similar progress for our Arab brothers .. Every success achieved in an Arab country represents an added force for the benefit of the entire Arab world.

Since the founding of our state, we have been pursuing the paths of goodness to our nation .. We have always been part of the Arab consensus, and we have always sought to unite the ranks, and we took the initiative to help all those whose capabilities fell short of meeting the development needs of their country .. We launched initiatives after initiatives to empower Arab youth in knowledge, science, administration and culture. We put our acquired experiences at the disposal of our brothers, and we will continue to strive for the advancement and advancement of our Arab world, for we are from him and he is from us.

His Highness explained: “Our Arab world needs to think in terms of the language and data of the third decade of the twenty-first century, to realize the depth of the political, economic and value changes that have swept our world in recent years, to foresee the future and to recognize the engines of development in it, and to be completely certain that the ancient means and patterns of work Old thinking will not lead to new results. Rather, it will reproduce the old, most of which is not easy and does not build sustainable development, nor does it make peace, security, or stability. ”

His Highness affirmed: “It is no longer acceptable to lay the responsibility for failure on others and on foreign conspiracies and interference .. For centuries, the Middle East region has been a subject of concern to major powers, and this interest has deepened after the First World War and its effects increased, which made security and stability in the region part of international security and stability. .

This situation has weighed heavily on the countries of the region, and placed them in front of one of two options: Either invest this international interest in a way that enhances their development and security, or let its influences and competitions control the contexts of events, their developments, and the means of managing them.

He also stressed: “It is true that the international situation is now characterized by ambiguity, and that the international system represented by the United Nations needs more effectiveness, and that the stampede prevails on the relations between the major countries, and that all this is reflected in our region and complicates its issues and disputes, and it is difficult to address and find solutions to them .. But it is also true that this situation is not a justification for the region’s survival in the event of waiting for developments in the international situation, and it is not a reason for striving to seriously address the region’s issues and its chronic problems, especially since most of them withheld the people's rights to development, stability and decent living ».

His Highness said: “When we concluded the (Abrahamic Agreement), we provided our region with a valuable opportunity to break through the stagnation, move stagnant water, and pave paths that lead to peace, security, coexistence and devotion to development.”

The agreement stopped eating the lands of our Palestinian brothers, and reminded the world of their just cause after it was absent from events and developments, and opened a horizon for them towards their legitimate rights in their independent state with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Greetings to our armed forces ... and our white army

Addressing male and female citizens, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum said: “On our national day, I greet with you the officers and soldiers of our armed forces, our security services and civil protection agencies, and renew my pride in their vital role in safeguarding the freedom, independence, sovereignty, security and stability of our homeland.”

His Highness added: “I also pay a warm greeting to our white army and its battalions of doctors, nurses, technicians and administrators who have shown sincerity and devotion, have taken risks and advanced ranks to combat the Corona pandemic and treat its injured.

Our white army has introduced new heroes to our country, their model, nurse Asma Mazyoud Al-Shehhi, who took the initiative to cut her study leave, left her baby, and worked 12 hours a day.

In our homeland there are thousands of men and women like Asmaa .. They are spread in all work sites, achieving and creating. ”

Next is more beautiful and splendid

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, in his speech on the occasion of the 49th National Day, said: “I promise you at the beginning of the year of our fiftieth union that the next will be more beautiful and splendid. From this and that you are the sons and daughters of the Emirates, with what we have entrusted you with in terms of determination, sincerity, competence and distinction, and what we knew in you of love for your country and dedication to serving it.

Happy National Day.

And you are among the looters returning.

Peace, mercy and blessings of God".

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