His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and David Muldrow Beasley, the Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme, discussed the role played by humanitarian and charity organisations in helping underprivileged nations survive the Covid-19 pandemic.
The meeting was held at Qasr Al Watan in Abu Dhabi, in the presence of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs.
The meeting addressed the onerous conditions poor peoples across the globe are facing under the pandemic and the difficulties they are encountering to meet their food and medical supplies and needs.
David Muldrow Beasley commended the significant humanitarian role played by the UAE through its charity and humanitarian organisations towards needy populations across the world, particularly third world and African nations without discrimination.
He highlighted in this respect the great humanitarian missions carried out by Dubai's International Humanitarian City in providing essential food supplies through airlifts and land bridges despite the tough transportation and traffic conditions caused by the current health crisis.