H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed receives students studying in the scholarship program of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

​H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Foreign Minister, received students pursuing the scholarship programme of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the presence of  HE Dr. Anwar Mohammed Gargash, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, on the sidelines of a ceremony to honour winners of the Foreign Minister Excellence Award.

H.H. Sheikh Abdullah expressed his happiness at meeting the students. He pointed out that the meeting was aimed at checking on the students' conditions and following up on their needs, expressing his hope to coordinate and communicate directly with them.

H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan said the Foreign Ministry is keen to support and enable competent people and help strengthen their efforts through the scholarship programme.

He said the Ministry, in cooperation with the General Command of the Armed Forces, launched the scholarship programme with an aim to build a generation of diplomats who are skilled in diverse and integrated disciplines, have the ability to understand the different and diverse cultures to communicate and have dialogue with them, thus allowing easy integration and dealings with such different peoples.

The programme's aim is also to prepare ambitious and hard-working generations who have the ability to further develop and continuously improve.

For their part, the students expressed their happiness at meeting H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, promising him that they will meet the expectations of the country's leadership in their education by reaching the highest academic certificate levels and will continue to participate in the march of progress.

The students expressed their appreciation to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for its support and help to continue their march of success.