Abdullah bin Salem: Sharjah Ruler shaped Emirate's history

The Deputy Ruler of Sharjah highlighted: "Fifty years of progress, expansion, and modernisation of society, as well as years of good governance, aspirational directives, and family building via a strong emphasis on the person, institutions, bodies, and integrated concepts for the Emirate's reconstruction and development. Five decades have passed, during which His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah enhanced great traditions of devotion, building, expansion, and development of society." 

Sheikh Abdullah bin Salem bin Sultan Al Qasimi added: “During these years, His Highness presented the essence of his experience and knowledge to educate and qualify leaders for various sites, ensuring that the civilisational reformation, founded on science, knowledge, wise leadership, and people, which distinguished Sharjah and its extensive programmes in various fields of human development and advancement, continues."

"The perceptive vision of His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah served as the foundation for the various institutions established in the Emirate," he said. “His Highness watched and supervised all tasks, leading and directing with the traits of a great leader until the Emirate transformed into a massive work cell and evolved to become today's Sharjah. One of the world's most successful instances of distinct human growth.”

Sheikh Abdullah bin Salem bin Sultan Al Qasimi went on to say: "We celebrate these fifty years of continuous development, and we celebrate with pride a true national experience that reached the world with all its great interest in the individual at various stages of his life according to a clear programme established by His Highness, the Ruler of Sharjah, with a belief that the development of society begins with human development and that knowledge, science, and technology are the foundations of human progress."

Sheikh Abdullah bin Salem bin Sultan Al Qasimi emphasised that the Emirate of Sharjah's prosperity and development since His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi assumed over indicates the genuineness of His Highness' humanitarian initiative, maintaining that various institutions have grown in the fields of education and culture including theatre, poetry, literature, and fine arts, as well as the health, educational, cognitive, urban, economic, commercial, and environmental fields, and in programmes, conferences and book festivals, and other main cornerstones to advance individual knowledge until the Emirate became a global symbol of culture.  

He concluded: “On this day, which is so dear to the hearts of all the people of Sharjah, we say: Thank you, our father, Your Highness, Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, may God protect you."