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Foreign Policy:
Dubai is a kind of promise, daring and innovation
Mohammed bin Zayed is one of the
most thoughtful world leaders
Foreign Policy Magazine said that
HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed
Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu
Dhabi, Deputy Supreme Commander
of UAE Armed Forces, is one of the
most thoughtful world leaders and
indicated that HH SheikhMoahmmed
bin Zayed said last year that UAE goal
is to learn to live without oil.
It also added that “the country has
already reduced oil as a percentage
of its GDP to under 30 percent and
is aiming to achieve a level below 20
percent by 2020.” That is a radical
commitment to diversification of
the economy that shows the kind
of foresight Sheikh Zayed, May God
bless his soul in peace demonstrated
when he set up the world’s first
sovereign wealth fund just years after
oil was discovered in the country.
It also said that The idea behind
creating a Ministry of Tolerance is
also much older than the ministry
itself. The country was founded by its
visionary first Ruler, Sheikh Zayed bin
Sultan Al Nahyan, with principles of
tolerance in mind.
In article in Foreign Policy Magazine,
Rothkopf wrote that under the heading:
In the midst of the Mideast’s chaos, one
country has become a laboratory for
producing exciting new ideas about the
future of governance.
He said that one cannot come away
from a visit to the UAE without being
impressed with what has been achieved
in a remarkably short period of time.
Moreover, one cannot help but be
struck by the degree to which many
leading governments including ours in
the United States would benefit from a
similar commitment to innovation not to
mention one to tolerance and happiness.
He also indicated that consider the age
of the country: 44 years old. Forty-
four years after the signing of the
Declaration of Independence in the US,
women, the majority of the population,
were still 90 years away from getting
the vote. Now, 240 years later, the
United States is not only still home to
grotesque inequities and surpassing
injustices, but as surveillance states go,
it leads the world.
He also said that some four decades
after its founding, the recent
government reforms in the UAE
included the placement of eight
women to the federal cabinet of 29
ministers, including the -22year-old
Minister of Youth, Shamma al-Mazrouei,
who holds degrees fromOxford University
and New York University Abu Dhabi.
Having a youth minister who can actually
relate to young people in a world in which
one of the great challenges is millennials’
distrust of institutions is in itself a bold and
long-overdue step that other countries
would do well to emulate.
He also indicated that his interview with
HE Mohammad Abdulla Al Gergawi ,
Minister of Cabinet Affairs in his office
sitting on the 51st floor of the Emirates
Tower in Dubai, it is possible to imagine
you are floating above the Emerald City of
Oz. The soaring towers of the city and the
architectural darling of the city’s buildings
evokes a sense of tomorrow in a way that
no city in the «Western world» can rival.
In fact that suggests the kind of promise,
daring, and innovation with the same
twisting, glistening vibrancy.
He also said that Gergawi, who went to
college in the United States, is an example
of the unique cadre of government
innovators who have set the UAE apart
from any nation in the Middle East,
placing it atop the very small group of the
world’s most imaginative and successful
governments.
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