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UAE weathers financial crisis’ storm : Hamdan
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3 November 2009
ABU DHABI - The UAE has weathered the storm of the international financial crisis and passed through its critical junctures thanks to the sound and far-sighted vision of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan and other UAE leaders, according to Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler’s Representative in the Western Region and Chairman of Red Crescent Authority (RCA).

“The UAE is making rapid staggering and tangible progress under the stewardship of Sheikh Khalifa. The holistic development that is going on in all emirates simultaneously underlines Sheikh Khalifa’s sincere determination to secure a decent life to both UAE people and expatriate residents,” Sheikh Hamdan said in a statement on the occasion of re-election of Sheikh Khalifa for second five-year term in office.

“The unity and cohesion we see in the UAE today was, no doubt, a fruit of tireless efforts and confident steps the late Sheikh Zayed has gone and are now being followed by Sheikh Khalifa in a bid to leverage the federal experiment to new heights. The UAE federal state, he stressed, has left its evident marks

on all local, regional and international levels and become a role model that merits to be followed by those searching for unity, peace, security and accord.

“Sheikh Khalifa’s wisdom in running the state affairs has left its lucid positive marks on all departments, utiltities, NGOs and relief and charity organisations. These achievements adore the UAE’s neck with a magnificent pearl necklace. The UAE abundant richness has also benefited sisterly and friendly countries,”Sheikh Hamdan said.

Sheikh Hamden said that Sheikh Khalifa’s humanitarian initiatives lend support to human development across the world and are viewed as one of the most important defence lines to preserve human dignity against implications of poverty, hunger, and marginalisation in flashpoints. Like other federal agencies, Sheikh Hamdan said, the RCA was fortune to enjoy the sponsorship of the President drinking from his ever-running human spring.  “The RCA is following his steps in meeting the needs of the underprivileged and improving the condition of disaster-hit categories,” he added.

“Sheikh Khalifa uses the UAE wealth to give hand to sisterly and friendly countries, reviving hopes of those peoples and extending bridges of love and peace through the undertaking pilot development and humanitarian projects. “His initiatives have earned the UAE a prominent place in the ranks of advanced nations,”he added.

“We will remain loyal to his principles and values for the best interest of the whole humanity,”Sheikh Hamdan pledged.

 


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