Abdulla Shahid, President of the United Nations General Assembly’s Seventy-sixth Session, meets with Reem Al Hashimy, UAE Minister of State for International Cooperation (U.A.E.)
During the jihadist occupation and in the conflict phases which ended in December 2017 with the Iraqi armed forces reconquering Mosul, the church of St Thomas had suffered serious damage to the external walls and the internal colonnade that separates the naves. The symbolic extent of the restoration of the church of St Thomas was highlighted in a UNESCO statement, which describes the Christian place of worship as an emblem of the history of Mosul
The Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi being conferred with the UAE’s highest civilian award ‘Order of Zayed’ by the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyanat, at Abu Dhabi