UAE leads world with Dh21.5b in foreign aid

The UAE is a global leader in providing humanitarian assistance, said His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice- President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai.

Shaikh Mohammad’s comments came at the launch of the UAE Foreign Aid Report 2013 on Monday in Abu Dhabi. “The UAE does not provide conditional assistance or wait for returns. The UAE simply wants stability and welfare for the people around the world,” he said.

The UAE provided Dh21.5 billion in foreign aid in 2013, the highest achieved by any country in 50 years,according to the report released by the Ministry of International Cooperation and Development.  Shaikh Mohammad attributed the achievement to  President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan and other UAE Rulers, who continued in the approach laid down by the late Shaikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan. “Today, we have more than 38 humanitarian organisations that are carrying out charitable activities around the world,” Shaikh Mohammad said.

Shaikh Mohammad later honoured the 38 humanitarian and donor organisations. He expressed his satisfaction with the results, and said that the volume of assistance documented in the report reflects the humanitarian values consolidated by the UAE’s founding fathers when the nation was established, and added that such values are encouraged by Islam.

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