Sheikha
Lubna bint Khalid Al Qasimi, Minister of International Cooperation and
Development, MICAD, and Head of the UAE Committee for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Foreign Aid, has said that the amount of humanitarian aid that the
UAE provided in the past five years (2009-2014) reached almost AED4.9 billion.
Speaking
on the advent of World Humanitarian Day, Sheikha Lubna said that the UAE, under
the guidance of its wise leadership represented by President His Highness
Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler
of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, and His Highness
Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy
Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, which is based on the philosophy of
the late founding father, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, carries an
honourable message to the world that, "Implementing humanitarian values
cannot be achieved without the support of a nation's leadership."
She
said that the UAE has come to deliver an honorable message to the whole world;
a message that the advancement of humanitarian work is an end that cannot be
achieved in the absence of a leadership that supports the philosophy and cause
of humanitarian action within a philanthropist vision that can overcome the
challenges facing humanity at large.
"The
scenarios of such challenges are getting more dangerous with the spread of
famine and diseases and the increasing alarming indicators of the dislocation
and immigration of millions of people outside their homes and countries due to
conflicts and natural and environmental catastrophes," Sheikha Lubna
explained and added, "When we talk about humanity, we should remember
those individuals who have given their time and efforts, sometimes even their
lives, when they hurried as volunteers to help and provide the necessities of
life to those who were badly hit by various crises.
"Some
of those have sacrificed their lives in conflict areas or due to natural
disasters as they uphold their humanitarian message for the whole humanity to
recognize the significance of international humanitarian and relief
action."
Sheikh
Lubna stressed that with the UAE’s great achievement of topping the world list
as the world’s biggest development and humanitarian donor for 2013 and 2014
compared to its national income, there is also another honorable achievement
reflected in the wonderful work and efforts put by UAE nationals to deliver aid
and relief to crisis victims in several parts of the world, despite all
difficulties and risks that threaten their lives. "No words are enough to
thank them and their fellow workers across the world," she said.
UAE
governmental humanitarian aid to face humanitarian crisis across the world has
reached AED 2.82 billion between 2009 and 2014 according to an ICAD report,
coming first as a donor. The second position was for the UAE Red Crescent
Authority, with AED 683 million of foreign aid. The country’s third donor was
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation with an AED 590 million of foreign aid.
As
for the receiving countries, Jordan being the largest host of the Syrian
refugees, got AED 1,482 billion of aid from the UAE, followed by Pakistan which
received AED 676 million, Libya received AED 406 million and Palestine received
AED 365 million. –End-
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by: www.uaeinteract.com
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