BRUSSELS // Dr Amal Al Qubaisi, Speaker of the Federal National Council, accompanied by a delegation, visited Maelbeek metro station in central Brussels to pay tribute to the 32 people killed in a terrorist suicide bombing last month.
They were greeted by the vice-president of the European Parliament, David Sassoli. The delegation placed a wreath at the station’s entrance in honour of the victims.
Dr Qubaisi wrote a letter on a commemorative wall inside the station, expressing her sympathy and solidarity with the Belgian people.
She condemned the crime, which targeted innocent civilians of a city she said represented a model of tolerance and coexistence between cultures and religions, state news agency Wam reported.
The FNC Speaker said such cowardly criminal acts of aggression were “incompatible with human values of respect for the sacred right to life, tolerance, freedom and peace, which are the core values of Belgian society”.
These acts only increase the determination of the UAE and Belgium to intensify mutual efforts and collaborations to fight terrorism and dry out its resources, she said.
During her visit, the FNC Speaker also met some of the victims’ families where she expressed her condolences and emphasised that terrorism went against the teachings of Islam.
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