ABU DHABI // The UAE is committed to helping partner countries achieve their Millennium Development Goals by delivering foreign aid in the form of humanitarian and development assistance, said Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi, Minister for International Cooperation and Development.
The country also prioritises global partnerships for development and the eradication of poverty and hunger, while seeking to achieve the MDGs locally, she said.
The programmes and projects initiated by the UAE leadership in developing countries would contribute to improved food supply, greater environmental sustainability and biodiversity conservation, better water management, child vaccination campaigns and support for global polio-eradication efforts.
Sheikha Lubna delivered a lecture – Towards Sustainability: The Role of the UAE as a Key Player in Global Development – at the Masdar Institute campus.
“As part of its contribution towards achieving sustainable development goals, the UAE specifically will endeavour to address the causes of poverty including conflict, fragile statehood, social exclusion, economic under-performance, under-mobilisation of national resources in poor countries, inadequate governance and under-investment in education and health,” Sheikha Lubna said.
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