BAKU/WAM COP29 President-Designate Mukhtar Babayev and UNFCCC Executive Secretary Simon Stiell attended a signing ceremony and exchanged letters, reaffirming Azerbaijan’s status as the host country for this year’s COP29 UN climate conference. The exchange of letters followed the COP29 Operating Company’s announcement of progress in its preparations to welcome international delegates to the conference in Baku and the Presidency’s engagements ...

ABU DHABI/WAM The United Arab Emirates has condemned in the strongest terms and denounced the ongoing Israeli violations which have resulted in hundreds of deaths and injuries of innocent civilians. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) stressed the UAE’s categorical rejection of the targeting of civilians and civilian facilities. The Ministry stressed that the immediate priority is to preserve the ...

ABU DHABI/AD MEDIA OFFICE Building on the success of the inaugural grant scheme in 2023, the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi) and Zayed National Museum, the national museum of the UAE currently under construction on Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Island, have launched the second round of the Zayed National Museum Research Fund. The fund continues ...