UAE announces Emirates Polar Programme

The UAE announced the motorboat of a polar probe task arsenic portion of plans to boost the nation’s lasting among leaders successful polar probe and presence, during a plenary league of the UAE Government’s Annual Meetings 2024.

Mariam Almheiri, Head of the International Affairs Office astatine the Presidential Court and Chair of the “UAE Polar Mission steering Committee”, outlined details of the project, developed implicit the past twelvemonth done collaboration betwixt the International Affairs Office astatine the Presidential Court, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Cabinet Affairs, the National Centre of Meteorology, and Khalifa University.

The task incorporates input from scientists, experts, and diplomats to specify cardinal probe priorities encompassing scientific, technological, and commercialized applications. Initial steps see establishing the “Polar Research Center” astatine Khalifa University, gathering strategical planetary partnerships, signing applicable treaties, and joining planetary polar missions.

Almheiri stated that these efforts underscore the UAE's designation of the strategical value and planetary interaction of polar science. Acknowledging the immense imaginable of the polar regions, contempt the inherent challenges, she emphasized that the task aims to equip Emirati scientists for information successful planetary polar missions.
Almheiri announced: "Two Emiratis embark connected their Antarctic ngo tomorrow, November 7th," she announced, “and different ngo is scheduled for the Arctic successful the summertime of 2025, extending the UAE's technological beingness to some poles.”

She explained the UAE's information for joining the forefront of polar research, emphasizing the nation's committedness to brushed power, inspiring aboriginal generations successful technological pursuits, gathering nationalist technological capacity, and championing planetary clime enactment and cardinal biology causes.

Regarding planetary treaties, Her Excellency confirmed Cabinet support for signing each the applicable treaties indispensable to polar probe and presence. Almheiri announced that the UAE has been invited to enactment successful the Antarctica InSync programme and the 33rd Bulgarian Antarctic Expedition and outlined Khalifa University's upcoming polar probe projects.

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