Abu Dhabi: The UAE has strongly condemned the terrorist attack on a cafe in Sydney, Australia and reaffirmed it will stand by the Australian people.
Shaikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Foreign Minister, issued a statement in which he strongly condemned the terrorist act, targeting innocent citizens that took place in a cafe in Sydney on Monday.
“This ugly act,” he said, “strengthens our commitment to confront the phenomena of extremism and terrorism, which do not distinguish between religions and peoples and which represent a serious danger to all civilised nations and societies, without discrimination.”
“Such acts,” he noted, “highlight the importance of all countries and nations standing together to join their efforts to confront such actions and to eradicate them.”
“Our well-intentioned struggle against these vicious crimes,” Shaikh Abdullah said, “requires that all of us cooperate together, firmly and wisely.”
“The UAE government and people,” he added, “stand by the friendly people of Australia and commend the Australian government for its efforts to confront extremism and terrorism. “We value highly the noble principles upon which Australian society has been built,” he added.
Noting the widely reported instances of individual non-Muslim Australians reassuring their Muslim compatriots that they were not to be blamed in any way for the crimes of a single deranged individual, and the sincere outreach of ordinary Australians to the Muslim community, he added: “These principles that form the basis of Australian society are rich with openness and tolerance to all cultures and beliefs and have resulted in the creation of a nation which does not discriminate on ethnic or religious grounds.”
Shaikh Abdullah emphasised “the need to firmly confront anyone who might seek to impinge upon and to change this humanitarian model.”
