Fahd Al-Mansoury

A friendly, brotherly meeting, away from the formalities between the Arab leaders, by  His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, His Majesty King Abdullah II bin Al Hussein, King of Jordan, and Mustafa Al Kazemi, Prime Minister of Iraq in Aqaba City, Jordan. The four leaders discussed ways to enhance relations of joint cooperation between them in all fields, especially trade and economic, and they also discussed views and opinions on current events at the world level, especially the global crisis in energy and food, and how to get out of it. These great friendly meetings have more positive effects than the official ones. The four countries have great historical and fraternal relations, and this meeting will increase friendship and brotherhood among peoples.  In my opinion, I hope for more of these spontaneous meetings, which bring the views closer and increase love and c...

  The UAE has strengthened its position as a regional center for international cruise ships, and one of the most important tourist trip destinations in the world, in light of the services and infrastructure it provides that enabled it to lead the sector to return to pre-pandemic levels of growth. It is expected that Dubai and Abu Dhabi ports will reach 226 ships carrying hundreds of thousands of visitors by the end of the current tourist season 2021-2022, which constitutes a qualitative addition to the tourism sector in general. The data of the international website "Statista" also showed that the revenues of the cruise sector in the UAE will rise at an annual growth rate of 17.86% during the period between 2022 and 2026, while the average revenue per sea passenger will reach about 2,960 dirhams.

 Syrian President Bashar al-Assad visited the UAE, which is his first visit to an Arab country since the outbreak of the Syrian crisis in 2011. He was received at Dubai International Airport by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed, Deputy Prime Minister of the UAE and Minister of Presidential Affairs. During the visit, he met with His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, who emphasized the UAE's support for the brotherly Syrian people and cooperation in the reconstruction of Syria.  He also met with His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid. The UAE was and still is a great supporter of the Syrian people and has facilitated residency for the Syrians residing in it and has never stopped it, and now the UAE is taking steps with Arab coordination to return Syria to its seat in the Arab League.

Yas Clinic Group partners with Globus Medical successfully conducted Middle East’s first robotic-assisted spine surgery. The surgery was conducted by renowned Johns Hopkins University-trained Emirati neurosurgeon Dr Abdul Salam Abu Baker Al Belushi. Dr Abdul Salam Al Belushi is seeking to establish a spine center of excellence in Abu Dhabi, with support and guidance from the esteemed leadership of UAE. The aim of the center would be to offer Middle East patients cutting edge surgical and non-surgical treatment of spinal pathologies in Abu Dhabi. “We seek to mirror and reflect the global standards of treatments that patients would be getting in the US,” said Dr Abdul Salam Al Belushi. “The center would not only grant patients access to high-quality care locally but would also be tremendously cost-effective, not only for the patients but for the government as well. Only a fraction of neurosurgeons in the US are trained in robotic-assisted spinal surgery, and now, UAE joins the ...

  The UAE has always been keen to provide all amenities for those who live in it, not only entertainment, but there is another very important issue, which is health.  The UAE was first keen on the presence of Emirati doctors at the highest international levels, so it provided all modern and advanced learning tools in order to educate qualified doctors who are able to keep pace with development. Secondly, providing hospitals and clinics with the latest medical devices, and as a result, during the Covid-19 pandemic, the UAE amazed the world in the strength and speed of taking and implementing measures and helping to find a vaccine. Third, the UAE has provided all kinds of support for scientific research in the field of medicine.  After all, the announcement of the success of the first spinal surgery using the report, conducted by the great Dr. Abdul Salam Al Balushi at Yas Clinic, is not a surprise for the UAE and its continuous development and keeping pace with development...

  The UAE has three major priorities during its Security Council presidency for the month of March, and they are the climate, women and Arab issues. The UAE intends to hold three events related to its priorities in the council, the first on women, peace, security and partnership, the second on climate security, and the third event revolving around the cooperation of the Security Council and the League of Arab States. The UAE has always been concerned with the Arab peoples and issues important for the stability and security of the brotherly Arab countries, and believes that the openness of countries and societies to each other would deepen the bonds of friendship and rapprochement in a way that supports an atmosphere of peace, understanding and dialogue at the regional and global levels. Therefore, it intends to focus on cooperation And dialogue between the League of Arab States and the UN Security Council on the many challenges facing the Arab region, which contribute to strengthen...

  The UAE and Morocco, the Arab brothers, have strong, great and humane relations over many years. Many great positions from the UAE to support the great Moroccan people during the Covid pandemic and then the Omicron pandemic. Now Morocco is recovering from the latest Omicron pandemic, and the Dubai Tourism Fair will have a major role in supporting Moroccan tourism, and with the opening of the Moroccan airspace, it will positively affect the revitalization of tourism with Dubai and the return of life to normal again in Morocco. May Allah protect the UAE and Morocco, always support each other and the two peoples are always in cooperation and brotherhood.

 The UAE begins its presidency of the Security Council during the month of March, and the climate issue is a top priority. The UAE has a clear and strong imprint on this important issue, and it is one of the first countries in the Middle East and North Africa to take strong, rapid and decisive measures to reduce carbon emissions,  and to propose solutions   and initiatives that contribute to accelerating efforts to protect the environment and biodiversity. Climate change remains one of the most pressing global challenges and the UAE intends to revitalize and advance conversations related to this issue in the Council during its presidency. The UAE was one of the first countries in the region to ratify and sign the Paris climate agreement in 2015, in which the signatories committed to work to maintain global warming by 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels by 2030. The UAE is preparing to host the twenty-eighth session of the Conference of the Parties to the...

 The UAE has significantly strengthened its framework to combat financial crimes. The action plan builds on the solid foundations and significant ongoing efforts to underscore its strong commitment to working closely with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to address the remaining areas of improvement through the implementation of the action plan. This is what the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has recognized that the UAE has made positive progress in its anti-money laundering (AML), countering the financing of terrorism (CFT), and counter proliferation financing (CPF) efforts, and to ensure the success and sustainability of those efforts, FATF announced that it has place the UAE under increased monitoring. "The UAE takes its role in protecting the integrity of the global financial system extremely seriously and will work closely with the FATF to quickly remedy the areas of improvement identified. On this basis, the UAE will continue its ongoing efforts to identify, disrup...

The Security Council for the month of March presided over by the first Arab woman to occupy this important position, an honorable model for Arab women, for her hard work and continuous development, and she is also one of the most successful Arab diplomats. Lana Zaki Nusseibeh is an Emirati diplomat who has held the position of Permanent Representative of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations since September 2013.  She has held many important positions before that, she was a consultant for UNESCO in Paris from 2000 to 2001, and an analyst with the Security and Terrorism Programme of the Gulf Research Center from 2004 to 2006, then she was head of the International Renewable Energy Agency taskforce, after that she worked within the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2009, first as Director of the Policy Planning Department and then as Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan. And in 2013, she was appointed as a permanent representative of the UAE to the United Nation...

  Lawyer Tom Hudson, author of the book " Exponential Emirates ", spoke to the American network "CNBC" about the story of the growth of the Emirates, expressing his admiration for the existence of a plan for the next fifty years in the country. He praised the leaders of the UAE and their wise vision and planning for the future and for what the world will be like in 2071, and expressed his great enthusiasm for the largest event in the world hosted by the UAE and making a lot of efforts and planning for a very important issue on which the future of the world depends,   United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28).

  UAE students won the award for the best visual presentation of the “Mental and Social Health Campaign for the Elderly” at the conclusion of the work of the Gulf Health Council for the “Healthcon” initiative, which lasted three days in Dubai, as part of the Expo 2020 Dubai initiatives, at the pavilion of the General Secretariat of the Gulf Cooperation Council. It was a strong and innovative competition between students of Arab countries, and each group worked to come up with creative ideas for the three previously scheduled campaigns: the campaign for mental and social health for the elderly, the campaign for the danger of electronic cigarettes, and the drug campaign. The team of the students of the Sultanate of Oman won the award for the best creative idea for changing behavior for the “Mental and Social Health Campaign for the Elderly”, while the team of the students of Saudi Arabia won the award for the best content quality for the “drug campaign”, and the team of Qatar student...

 The UAE is a state of benevolence and humanity, which has always supported all friendly countries around the world and has strong and essential positions and roles to end crises and help peoples, and it continues to support and help. It also has in Africa especially noble and wonderful positions in providing aid in various crises to various countries, such as providing continuous aid to the Ethiopian people during the civil war and the Covid pandemic and the Somali people during the drought, as it always has a clear and great humanitarian imprint there. The latest of which was the dispatch of a plane carrying 47 tons of urgent relief supplies to the friendly Republic of Mozambique, to alleviate the humanitarian repercussions it is exposed to due to lack of resources, drought, and the presence of many families without shelter or basic food needs, especially children and women. And this is not the first time that the UAE has helped the Mozambican people. In April of last year, it se...

His Highness Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, may God have mercy on him, visited Sudan for the first time on an official visit on February 20, 1972, about two and a half months after the establishment of the UAE Union, where he visited all the states of Sudan and received official and popular receptions. Then Sudanese President Jaafar Muhammad Nimeiri, may God have mercy on him, visited the UAE as the first president of state to visit the UAE, and that was on April 23, 1972, two months after Sheikh Zayed's visit to Sudan, accompanied by a large official delegation of ministers and officials. And now, 50 years have passed since Sheikh Zayed's visit to Sudan, and the relationship of the UAE and Sudan is still strong, interconnected, and great cooperation, and the UAE supports Sudan and the Sudanese people with strength and love, and investment and trade exchange have grown.

  In implementation of the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, the Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development announced its intention to establish a center to support innovation and entrepreneurship in the Republic of Kenya with the aim of implementing a set of special programs and initiatives in the field of innovation and the development of small and medium enterprises. The center aims to support the creation of innovative projects, create job opportunities for youth, stimulate their capabilities and develop their entrepreneurial skills, in addition to supporting innovation and promising projects in the field of technology, enabling innovative projects to reach regional and global markets, as well as contributing to building the capacities of entrepreneurs and local bodies in Kenya. It comes within the framework of the UAE's commitment in the field of official development assistanc...

  The engineer, Maryam Al-Kaabi, with a team consisting of two colleagues and a doctor supervising the project, invented an automated tool to help individuals make holes in the plane for installing the pieces, as this tool shows a light indicating that the device is ready for use, Then the parts of the plane are pierced based on the required angle and the necessary force of pressure by this piercer. The engineer holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master’s degree from the UAE University. She obtained a patent for her innovation and it was registered through the patent office at the UAE University headquarters. It is also not her first project, as she has developed a device in the field of research in aluminum processes while working on a master’s thesis at UAE University, and has come up with a new device, and she is also seeking a patent for it. The UAE provides the appropriate climate and capabilities for all innovators to achieve the best results.

 The UAE received Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is on an official visit for the first time in 9 years to the UAE for two days to discuss bilateral relations, a solemn official reception. Abu Dhabi and Qasr Al Watan were adorned with Emirati and Turkish flags, and His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, was the first to receive him at Abu Dhabi Airport. Then they moved in a solemn procession to  Qasr Al Watan  amid an atmosphere of great reception by planes that decorated the sky with the Turkish flag and a reception from the Knights Division until the palace and then the national anthem of the two countries was played.

  General Kenneth McKenzie, Commander of the US Central Command COMCEN, praises the UAE army and confirms that the UAE defense system was effective in countering the missile attacks that the UAE was subjected to and that it has one of the most professional armies in the region, and a very safe place. He also stressed that the United States is cooperating with the UAE and with regional and international partners to develop more effective solutions to stop attacks using drones, and that it will support the UAE to improve its defense system and enhance its capabilities. The United States sent the guided missile destroyer "USS Cole", which has great defensive capabilities against ballistic missiles, and the destroyer will patrol the waters of the UAE and work closely with the Emirati side to protect the state, and it will send to the UAE a squadron of advanced F-22 fighters after a week From now on, it is one of the best air superiority fighters in the world.

  Major travel and tourism companies announced that there has been a significant increase in the issuance of tourist visas to visit the UAE from all over the world, up to 50% during the recent period, compared to the past two years, which led to the depletion of the quotas of some tourism and travel companies from tourist visas, and other resorts to some Suppliers, such as airlines, for additional shares. This significant increase is due to the establishment of Expo 2020 Dubai, which has dazzled and continues to dazzle the world with its great innovative events and activities and its strong presence, as well as the level of security and safety in the country, and full confidence in the precautionary measures to combat the “Covid-19”,  and that the opening of air traffic in a country The UAE, and the absence of strict restrictions on travel, and the climate factor, factors that contributed greatly to that demand, as The UAE winter is among the best in the world, where many act...

  The Research and Development Center at the Ministry of Interior won first place in the Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz Prize for Security Research, for a research entitled “Future cyber challenges facing the Gulf Cooperation Council countries and ways to confront them.” The research dealt with the axes of indicative research in the concept of cybersecurity, its importance, characteristics, dimensions and developments, the future cyber challenges facing the countries of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, and the strategy to reduce them. The award was received by Lieutenant-Colonel Dr. Omar Rashid Saeed Al Shehhi, Director of the Research and Development Center at the Ministry of Interior, in the presence of Lieutenant-General H.H. Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, and Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Minister of Interior in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia who honored the winners.