UAE’s Lifeline to Lebanon: 18th Aid Plane Delivers Vital Medical Supplies Amidst Crisis

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  The United Arab Emirates has dispatched its 18th aid aircraft carrying 40 tonnes of essential medical supplies to Lebanon as part of the “UAE Stands with Lebanon” campaign. This ongoing initiative, launched in early October, aims to provide critical food, medical, and shelter supplies to the Lebanese population, who continue to face severe hardships due to ongoing conflict. In close collaboration with international organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), UAE humanitarian organizations are playing a pivotal role in delivering life-saving aid to Lebanon’s vulnerable communities. The campaign is a direct response to the directives of UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, with further guidance from His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE Vice President and Deputy Prime Minister, and under the l

Challenges will best be fought with joint cooperation, says UAE

 


The United Arab Emirates has called for joint cooperation of all the arab countries to fight the issues in the region. The top officials representing the emirati nation stressed that the top priority of the Arab world should be dealing with the issues that have troubled the region in the past and some of them keep on troubling to this day.

The call was initiated by the Khalifa Shaheen Almarar, who is the Minister of State. He led the UAE delegation at the AL council’s 155th session on Wednesday in Cairo and talked about the whole group of Arab nations coming together for a common solution for the problems that the region is facing.

He stressed that the current scenario needs solidarity through the Arab world to be more effective while confronting the coronavirus outbreak and also meanwhile developing a successful mechanism to curb its spread which eventually leads to ending the crisis. The countries should come together to accelerate the roll out of vaccines to survive the health crisis, he added.

The minister also highlighted UAE’s position in various issues that the region saw in the last few years. Be it the Palestinian cause or the situation in Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Sudan and Syria, UAE has been supportve of all these issue and has been their for those who were the most affected during these crucial times. He also took note that UAE has a very strong position against Houthi rebels who have attacked on Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

He went on to explain that in the Palestinian issue saying that the UAE has been supporting teh cicvlians on the Palestinian state since the border establishement done on June 4 with East Jerusalem as its capital while also having international acceptence towards a two state solution for the country.

UAE stands with consensus of against hampering whaterve objects hamper the two state solution. The UAE minister further showed strength for the Kingdom which has been under continuous attack of Houthi rebels be it physically or on the verbal basis. He said that UAE stands against all the threats to its security for the citizens.

The minister, on top of all, urged Iran for a fresh round of talks, which have been repeatedly scheduled for Irani authorities to join. He added that it is essential to “settle the issue of our occupied islands of Abu Mousa, Lesser Tunb and Greater Tunb, or resort to the International Court of Justice.”

For Yemen, too, the UAE has expressed a positive outlook towards Riyadh Agreement so that the crisis, which is one of the worst humanitarian situations, defuses. UAE showed its firm stance towards a political solution in Syria too as the minister added, “ We underscore the importance of ensuring an efficient Arab role in support of the peaceful solution in Syria.”

Even for Libya, Iraq and Sudan, all of which are going through a political turmoil and are being taken advantage of by foreign companies. “We support Iraq against all foreign interference in its internal affairs,” he said on the Iraq issue and Iran’s involvement in the political environment of Iraq. 

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