Abu Dhabi: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) foreign ministry on Monday announced a name change.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC) will now be officially known as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA).
Taking to Twitter, MoFA wrote, “Official name of “Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation” changed to “Ministry of Foreign Affairs”
This is according to “Federal Law (3) of 2023 regarding the amendment of some provisions of Federal Decree Law No. (8) of 2022 regarding the organization of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.”
The law includes replacing the phrase “Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation” with the phrase “Ministry of Foreign Affairs”, and the phrase “Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation” with the phrase “Minister of Foreign Affairs”.
The minister handling the portfolio – Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan – will be called the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs
UAE foreign ministry was established in 1971 with the aim of drawing up the country’s foreign policy, supervising its implementation and coordinating with international bodies.
He calls for the importance of achieving world peace and amicably resolving international disputes through dialogue and legal arbitration.
The ministers successively assumed the ministry, namely Ahmed Khalifa Al Suwaidi from 1971 to 1980, then Rashid Abdullah Al Nuaimi from 1980 to 2006, and since 2006 Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan has been in charge of it until today.
