By Ambassador Martina Sturdy of america of America to the UAE, and Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba of the United Arab Emirates to america of America
ABU DHABI, twenty second September, 2024 (WAM) – The US of America and the United Arab Emirates share enduring safety ties and a dedication to a peaceable, secure, and affluent Center East area, mentioned Ambassador Martina Sturdy of america of America to the UAE, and Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba of the United Arab Emirates to the USA, in a joint Op-Ed forward of the official go to of President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to america of America.
‘’In shut partnership, we’re working to advance multilateral diplomatic options and supply urgently wanted humanitarian help in Gaza and Sudan. Our ongoing protection and counterterrorism cooperation makes our international locations and the world safer. U.S. and UAE troops have stood shoulder to shoulder in six conflicts over the past 30 years; their valor and devotion to responsibility have cast the strongest of bonds between our international locations, the ambassadors remarked.
‘’By persevering with to accomplice collectively, exploring new alternatives and addressing shared challenges head-on, we’re conserving our eyes firmly mounted on a greater imaginative and prescient for the area and for the subsequent 50 years of our cooperation,’’ they added.
Following is the complete textual content of the Op-Ed:
”In 1974, a U.S. delegation of NASA astronauts and scientists visited Abu Dhabi to transient the United Arab Emirates’ founder and first President, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, on the Apollo missions to the moon. Few may have imagined then that the UAE would grow to be a key accomplice within the NASA-led Artemis missions that can return humanity to the Moon by offering an important contribution to the Gateway programme, which is able to set up the primary ever lunar orbital station.
When UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan visits Washington subsequent week for a White Home assembly with President Joe Biden, they’ll spotlight a half-century trajectory of UAE-U.S. partnerships which have delivered prosperity, safety, and scientific progress in each our international locations.
With regards to superior applied sciences and synthetic intelligence, few international locations are working as intently and transferring as rapidly collectively as america and the UAE. The U.S. Silicon Valley and the UAE “Silicon Oasis” are driving AI analysis and innovation towards the frontier. And they’re doing so in partnerships that span labs, boardrooms, and superior manufacturing services. The drive alongside Sheikh Zayed Highway from Abu Dhabi to Dubai feels very acquainted to any American tech government, with Google, Meta, IBM, and Microsoft indicators lighting the way in which.
This week, Abu Dhabi’s expertise funding agency MGX joined with Microsoft, U.S. funding agency BlackRock, and others to launch a brand new expertise infrastructure funding platform. Over the previous 12 months, Silicon Valley’s Cerebras teamed up with the UAE’s G42 to deploy a number of of the world’s quickest supercomputers for AI coaching in California and Texas. Mubadala’s transformational funding in NY-based GlobalFoundries helps to broaden U.S. semiconductor manufacturing and including hundreds of jobs to the area’s innovation economic system. G42 can be partnering with Microsoft’s Azure on a brand new cloud computing platform within the UAE and dealing with different U.S. tech leaders like Nvidia, AMD, VAST, and Qualcomm to scale up superior expertise infrastructure within the UAE.
Our international locations acknowledge the advantages of expertise and scientific cooperation and are dedicated to broaden our work on new initiatives, together with enhanced requirements for safeguarding knowledge and delicate applied sciences, better collaboration in analysis and training, in addition to packages to assist slim the digital divide by offering extra accessible core applied sciences to all, whereas guaranteeing the best requirements of safety and privateness.
Just like the UAE-U.S. Settlement for Nuclear Cooperation, these collaborative efforts may grow to be the brand new “gold customary” for securing and propelling the subsequent technology of applied sciences. The 2009 landmark “123 Settlement” enabled the UAE’s growth of civilian nuclear vitality, which now delivers low-emission electrical energy to UAE knowledge facilities.
The go to additionally builds on the historic COP28 Local weather Convention hosted by the UAE final December, a pivotal second for U.S.-UAE cooperation on addressing the local weather disaster and accelerating the vitality transition.
Superior expertise and local weather motion are creating new enterprise alternatives which have drawn U.S. firms, entrepreneurs, and traders to the UAE. The UAE’s place as a world crossroads for enterprise, media, and tradition has additionally made it a gateway to fast-growing markets throughout the Center East, Africa, India, and Asia. Greater than 1,500 American firms and establishments function within the UAE, contributing to its progress, financial diversification, and job creation. Over 50,000 People now name the UAE house.
The advantages of 5 a long time of bilateral commerce and engagement have naturally flowed in each instructions. The UAE has invested greater than $1 trillion throughout all sectors of the American economic system. And the UAE is the most important vacation spot for U.S. exports within the Center East. Bilateral commerce exceeded $31 billion in 2023 alone.
The US and the UAE share enduring safety ties and a dedication to a peaceable, secure, and affluent Center East area. In shut partnership, we’re working to advance multilateral diplomatic options and supply urgently wanted humanitarian help in Gaza and Sudan. Our ongoing protection and counterterrorism cooperation makes our international locations and the world safer. U.S. and UAE troops have stood shoulder to shoulder in six conflicts over the past 30 years; their valor and devotion to responsibility have cast the strongest of bonds between our international locations.
By persevering with to accomplice collectively, exploring new alternatives and addressing shared challenges head-on, we’re conserving our eyes firmly mounted on a greater imaginative and prescient for the area and for the subsequent 50 years of our cooperation.
Very similar to the Apollo mission impressed generations of scientists and engineers, the UAE and america are assembly the longer term collectively on the Gateway mission and in so many different methods. Recognizing then the moon touchdown’s significance and seeing its promise for the area and the world, the late Sheikh Zayed mentioned: “Whether it is God’s will, man can obtain something; nothing is not possible.”
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