Sense of achievement inspires future success: Mohammad

Dubai:  His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, urged readers to draw lessons from the government's achievements and experiences so as to invest them in planning for the future.

In his preface to a new book released by the UAE government, Four Years of Achievements, Shaikh Mohammad highlighted the nation's achievements over the previous four years and challenges that had been faced with hard work and dedication, and how they had reflected positively on the UAE and its people.

The book comes at a time when the UAE under the leadership of President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan is witnessing an unprecedented activity at all levels, especially in the past four years. A host of nitiatives, governmental activities and achievements in this period have found mention in the book.

The book documents the achievements of the federal government from 2006 to 2009 under the leadership of Shaikh Mohammad.

Highlighting the most important achievements, programmes and initiatives, the content of the book are organised and presented to allow readers to understand the role of the government, its services and achievements.

The book comprises seven chapters focusing on: social development, economic development, foreign policy, government sector development, security safety and justice, infrastructure and rural areas development, in addition to a chapter highlighting the most important health and economic issues the government dealt with during the four years.

In the book's preface, Shaikh Mohammad also underlines the importance of achieving the objectives of the national development programme of empowering the UAE and its people, and reaching the highest levels of prosperity and development.

The book can be downloaded from the UAE Prime Minister's website www.uaepm.ae and the UAE Cabinet website www.uaecabinet.ae.