UAE offers support to Unesco on Mosul work

Concerted efforts must be focused on the humanitarian aspects in the reconstruction and restoration of Mosul in Iraq to ensure cultural and educational sustainable development within the city, a senior UAE official said.

Noora Mohammad Al Kaabi, Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development, represented the UAE in the International Conference for the Recovery and Restoration of the City of Mosul in the headquarters of Unesco in Paris.

The conference aims to review the current situation in Mosul, mobilise the international community for the reconstruction and recovery of Mosul, and to present major projects that will contribute to the restoration of Mosul’s heritage sites, reviving its cultural life and its educational institutions.

In her keynote speech as part of the conference, Al Kaabi stressed the importance of strategic partnerships among key actors in the reconstruction of the Great Mosque of Al Nuri and Al Hadba’ Minaret.

“The UAE’s support for the reconstruction and restoration of Al Nuri mosque marks a turning point in the lives of the people of Iraq in general, and the people of Mosul in particular, due to its global cultural value.”