The UAE participates in the conference of the International Council on Archives in Australia

The National Archives highlights the civilized face of the country, and reviews its preparations to host the International Council on Archives Congress 2020 in Abu Dhabi

The UAE National Archives, chaired by His Excellency Dr. Abdullah Mohamed Al Raisi, Director General of the National Archives, participated in the Archives Design Conference in Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. />

Regarding the participation of the UAE National Archives in the Adelaide Conference, His Excellency Dr. Abdullah Mohamed Al Raisi said: The conference represented an ideal platform to review the National Archives’ preparations to host the International Archives Council Congress 2020, and pointed out that the proceedings of the Adelaide Conference have added a lot to the upcoming Congress in Abu Dhabi, and that participation It provided an opportunity for the Emirati delegation to inform representatives of the international national archives of the most important features of the upcoming International Archives Conference, which will be held in Abu Dhabi under the slogan “Empowering Knowledge Societies”. It is expected that thousands of archivists from all over the world will participate in it, to discuss fundamental global issues in the field of archiving and documentation.

It is worth noting that the participation of the National Archives included a keynote speech delivered by the Director General of the National Archives of the United Arab Emirates  In it, he expressed his happiness to participate in the conference of the International Council on Archives in Adelaide, Australia, and called the leaders of international archives to a congress  The International Archives Council 2020, expressing his hope that the 2020 Congress in Abu Dhabi will promote multidisciplinary thinking, and contribute to strengthening the bonds of communication between the participants with the aim of exchanging expertise, experiences and specialized knowledge, adding that the participants will be able to visit the Expo 2020 exhibition hosted by the Emirate of Dubai under the slogan of communication. Minds and making the future.

The National Archives organized an information session for members of the Executive Council of the International Council of Archives. The UAE National Archives’ pavilion, which was designed creatively, was able to provide delegates, visitors and participants with information about the ongoing preparations to host the next Congress of the International Council of Archives. The hospitable city of Abu Dhabi, with the aim of enriching the participants’ knowledge of the historical dimension of the United Arab Emirates, and its present, which is a model of an environment where tolerance and peace prevail, despite its embrace of more than two hundred nationalities, among which there is harmony and harmony.

The pavilion distributed to the conference participants a number of National Archives publications that provide documented information on the modern history of the UAE, such as the book (Zayed, A Man Who Built a Nation), the book (Qasr Al-Hosn), the book (Khalifa Journey to the Future), and the book (Zayed from Challenge to Future). Union).

The National Archives seized the opportunity of the conference, which was organized in Australia, and held a dinner party in honor of archival leaders in the world. The dinner party was an expression of the hospitality that characterizes the United Arab Emirates.