Brussels: A delegation from the Federal National Council, headed by Dr Amal Abdullah Al Qubaisi, Speaker of Federal National Council (FNC), visited Maelbeek metro station in central Brussels, to pay tributes to the people who were killed by a terrorist suicide bomber last month.
On behalf of the UAE, the delegation, who was received by David Sassoli, Vice-President of the European Parliament, placed a wreath at the station’s entrance in honour of the victims.
Al Qubaisi also wrote a letter of tribute, on a commemorative wall inside the station, expressing her sympathy and solidarity with the Belgian people and condemned the heinous crime which targeted innocent civilians of a city that represents a model of tolerance and coexistence between different cultures and religions.
Al Qubaisi stressed that such cowardly criminal acts of aggression are incompatible with human values of respect for the sacred right to life, tolerance, freedom and peace, which are the core values of Belgian society, adding that these acts only increase the UAE’s and Belgium’s determination to intensify mutual efforts and collaborations to fight terrorism and dry out its resources.
During her visit, the FNC Speaker also met with some of the families of victims and she personally expressed her condolences and emphasised that terrorism goes against the teachings of Islam which are of love, peace and tolerance.
