UAE renews support to global relief efforts

Abu Dhabi: The UAE has renewed its commitment to humanitarian responsibilities to reduce the impact of human suffering.

Shaikh Hamdan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler's Representative in the Western Region, Chairman of UAE Red Crescent Authority (RCA) pointed out that the UAE under the leadership of President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and the directives of His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai and General Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, has also renewed its constant desire to mobilise support for universal humanitarian principles and for its continued support to the affected victims of conflicts and disasters.

Responsibility

Shaikh Hamdan, in a statement to mark World Humanitarian Day, which falls Friday, stressed on the UAE's care to promote its humanitarian efforts around the world.

He also expressed his happiness towards the fact that the UAE is appreciated by the United Nations (UN) and its humanitarian organisations that have chosen UAE to be its main station for relief operations and initiatives to achieve the greatest measure of solidarity with humanitarian situations all over the world.

He appealed the international community to shoulder its full responsibility to alleviate suffering, poverty, hunger and increased extent of marginalised regions, hoping that the financial crisis will not affect the current international efforts in reducing poverty.