The United Arab Emirates and america of America have issued the next joint assertion on the event of the official go to of His Highness President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed to america:
“U.S.-UAE Joint Leaders’ Assertion”
Dynamic Strategic Companions
His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, and President Joseph R. Biden Jr. met at the moment on the White Home throughout an official go to of His Highness President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed to america. The go to is the first-ever by a President of the United Arab Emirates to Washington and marks the leaders’ fourth bilateral assembly within the Biden-Harris Administration. The leaders affirmed the enduring U.S.-UAE strategic and protection partnership, bolstered areas of deepening cooperation in superior expertise and investments, and mentioned world and regional issues. The leaders pledged to pursue new alternatives to strengthen their financial and protection partnership; promote peace and stability throughout the Center East and wider area; and ship world management on problems with shared significance. The 5 many years of U.S.-UAE ties and friendship are rooted in a robust basis of shut collaboration that has underpinned our nations’ prosperity and safety.
The leaders welcomed the numerous progress between the United Arab Emirates and america throughout their tenure by cooperation in constructing trusted expertise ecosystems, the Partnership for World Infrastructure and Funding (PGI), the U.S.-UAE Partnership for Accelerating Clear Vitality (PACE) initiative, and the Financial Coverage Dialogue (EPD), all of which serve to uplift financial and commerce ties between the 2 nations.
On specific points of dialogue:
Dynamic Strategic Partnership: Commerce and Superior Know-how
Our nations’ sturdy basis of partnership is mirrored in our shut alignment on key financial aims and within the excellence of our personal sectors that generate greater than $40 billion of bilateral commerce yearly and an entry of $26 billion of U.S. exports to the UAE. The Leaders charted an bold course for the United Arab Emirates and america to guide world efforts to develop and develop new fields central to the worldwide financial system, notably in superior applied sciences and the clear vitality required to energy Synthetic Intelligence.
They welcomed the partnership between Microsoft and UAE’s Group 42 (G42) by Microsoft’s $1.5 billion funding in April 2024. This funding is accelerating joint AI improvement to deliver superior AI and digital infrastructure to nations within the Center East, Central Asia, and Africa.
The leaders additional welcomed Microsoft and G42’s ongoing digital transformation in Kenya, which can leverage 1GW of geothermal vitality to energy data-centers to allow the deployment of cloud infrastructure and AI companies for the general public sector and controlled industries in addition to enterprises. Additional, the partnership will assist the event of native Massive Language Fashions and the institution of an East African Innovation Lab. Moreover, the partnership hopes to encourage worldwide and native connectivity investments, and collaboration with the federal government of Kenya to allow digital transformation applications throughout East Africa.
These initiatives mark the start of our partnership and investments within the accountable deployment of superior applied sciences, clear vitality, and frontier applied sciences that would be the engine that powers our interconnected world.
To satisfy the promise of this transformational second and harness the potential of modern applied sciences to enhance human welfare globally, President Biden and His Highness President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed welcomed the Widespread Rules for Cooperation on AI, endorsed at the moment by Nationwide Safety Advisor Jake Sullivan and UAE Nationwide Safety Advisor Tahnoon bin Zayed, and thru which america and the United Arab Emirates purpose to additional strengthen cooperation, develop regulatory frameworks, promote the secure and trusted deployment of crucial and rising applied sciences, and allow enhanced assist for joint private-public sector analysis and educational exchanges.
Constructing on our collaboration within the discipline of superior expertise, this partnership incorporates safeguards to guard the nationwide safety of each nations, allow trusted investments and entrepreneurship, and facilitate cross-border innovation, whereas creating jobs and facilitating the safety of superior U.S. applied sciences and respect for worldwide rules, greatest practices, and human rights. Transferring ahead, the leaders determined to advertise the growth of relationships amongst scientific, educational, and analysis and improvement communities.
Strengthening Crucial Infrastructure and Provide Chain Resiliencies
The leaders reviewed progress on efforts to construct a extra interconnected, built-in world in committing to safe and resilient provide chains by the Partnership for World Infrastructure and Funding (PGI).
His Highness President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed and President Biden mentioned progress on the landmark India-Center East-Europe Financial Hall (IMEC) launched on the 2023 G20 Leaders’ Summit in New Delhi along with the leaders of India, Saudi Arabia, France, Germany, Italy, and the European Union. The leaders reaffirmed that the hall – connecting India to Europe by ship-to-rail connections by the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel, and Europe by Greece – will generate financial development, incentivize new investments, improve efficiencies and cut back prices, improve financial unity, generate jobs, decrease greenhouse gasoline emissions, and allow the transformative integration of Asia, Europe, and the Center East.
They underscored that this transformative partnership has the potential to usher in a brand new period of worldwide connectivity to facilitate world commerce, develop dependable entry to electrical energy, facilitate clear vitality distribution, and strengthen telecommunication. The 2 leaders emphasised the significance of joint initiatives to advertise a round financial system, cut back waste, facilitate recycling, and advance sustainable practices, underscoring their dedication to innovation for useful resource effectivity and environmentally accountable development.
The leaders additionally reaffirmed their dedication to proceed their efforts with worldwide companions and the personal sector to attach the continents to industrial hubs and facilitate the event and export of unpolluted vitality; assist current commerce and manufacturing synergies; strengthen meals safety and provide chains; and hyperlink vitality grids and tele-communication traces by undersea cables to develop entry to electrical energy, allow innovation of superior clear vitality expertise, and join communities to safe and steady web.
The leaders moreover mentioned the significance of ongoing efforts to cooperate on strategic investments in laborious infrastructure and significant minerals-supply chains in Africa and rising markets globally. These investments purpose to diversify sourcing of crucial minerals which are important parts to wash vitality and superior applied sciences, together with batteries, wind generators, semiconductors, and electrical automobiles. President Biden acknowledged the United Arab Emirates’ management in strategic investments globally to make sure dependable entry to crucial infrastructure together with, ports, mines, and logistics hubs by the Abu Dhabi Funding Authority, the Abu Dhabi Developmental Holding Firm, Abu Dhabi Ports, and DP World.
Each leaders dedicated to stay in shut contact on future funding alternatives and preserve cooperation on strategic investments.
The leaders moreover highlighted that the U.S.–UAE 123 Settlement, which supplies a complete framework for peaceable nuclear cooperation based mostly on a mutual dedication to nuclear nonproliferation, is the “gold commonplace” for securing and propelling the subsequent era of applied sciences.
Partnering to Defend our Planet Via the Clear Vitality Transition
The leaders underscored the significance of U.S.-UAE management at COP28, which galvanized world leaders to take motion and handle the local weather disaster. President Biden thanked His Highness President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed for his extraordinary dedication that was central to the groundbreaking outcomes at COP28 in Dubai ensuing within the UAE Consensus.
The 2 leaders acknowledged that this second represents a singular alternative to create sustainable and clear vitality jobs, revitalize communities, enhance high quality of life, and energy digital infrastructure with renewable vitality throughout each nations and across the globe. On this context, the 2 leaders affirmed their shared dedication to defending our valuable planet and securing a sustainable future for humanity by united management throughout varied platforms, together with the upcoming COP29 and past, which can serve to advance local weather motion and strengthen world partnerships.
The 2 leaders expressed their dedication to leverage visionary initiatives, together with the Partnership for Accelerating Clear Vitality (PACE), the Agricultural Innovation Mission for Local weather (AIM4C), the First Movers Coalition, the Web Zero Producers Discussion board, the World Methane Pledge, Carbon Administration Problem, the Oil and Gasoline Decarbonization Constitution (OGDC), the Industrial Transition Accelerator (ITA), the World Biofuels Alliance, and World Flaring and Methane Discount (GFMR) Belief Fund; and encourage industrial partnerships to decarbonize our vitality programs, cut back emissions in pursuit of a web zero financial system, and ship prosperity to future generations.
President Biden and His Highness President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed reaffirmed their sturdy dedication to collaborate on sustainability and local weather resilience, emphasizing their dedication to addressing world challenges by progressive options. The 2 leaders underscored their joint efforts in advancing agri-tech and vertical farming improvements, key drivers in enhancing meals safety for future generations. They highlighted ongoing cooperation in humanitarian initiatives aimed toward addressing meals insecurity in weak areas, notably by agricultural improvement and capability constructing in local weather affected areas. Recognizing the affect of local weather change on public well being, the leaders emphasised the necessity to combine well being resilience into complete local weather motion methods.
President Biden additionally congratulated the United Arab Emirates on its many successes in its two Years of Sustainability (2023-2024), together with the latest announcement on co-hosting the subsequent UN Water Convention in 2026 with Senegal, noting the crucial significance of accessible and reasonably priced clear water to all; and its significance inside varied sectors within the clear vitality transition, addressing local weather change, and the sustainable improvement agenda.
Partnership to Speed up Clear Vitality (PACE)
Underneath the U.S.-UAE Partnership to Speed up Clear Vitality (PACE) initiative, america and the UAE are saying a number of initiatives that can proceed our efforts to make sure a swift and easy transition in direction of clear vitality. The USA and United Arab Emirates stay dedicated to investing collectively in Africa and dealing to finish vitality poverty throughout sub-Saharan Africa. At this time, the UAE-based Averi Finance and AMEA Energy are each personal sector companions underneath the U.S.-led Energy Africa Initiative, becoming a member of an current partnership with UAE-based firm Phanes. As personal sector companions, these companies shall be supplied tailor-made help from transaction advisors and technical specialists and may profit from companies supplied by taking part U.S. authorities departments and businesses.
To assist the Energy Africa initiative, Averi Finance intends to facilitate $5 billion in investments, construct 3GW of energy era tasks, assemble over 3,000 kilometers of transmission or distribution traces, set up over 500,000 new house and enterprise connections, and purpose for a CO2 equal discount or avoidance of 90 million tons. AMEA Energy and Energy Africa have just lately entered right into a partnership to speed up energy tasks. AMEA Energy is concentrating on 5GW of renewable vitality capability in Africa by 2030, and to understand this goal, intends to mobilize $5 billion in capital.
Moreover, underneath PACE, ADNOC has introduced a 35 p.c stake in ExxonMobil’s proposed low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia manufacturing facility in Baytown, Texas. This facility goals to provide as much as roughly 900,000 tons of low-carbon ammonia per 12 months, enabling the transition to cleaner fuels in hard-to-abate sectors. Plynth Vitality – a just lately established Abu Dhabi government-owned early-stage fund centered on fusion applied sciences and provide chains – invested within the U.S. firm Zap Vitality, which plans to construct scalable and commercially-viable fusion vitality. This funding will assist fund the additional improvement of Zap Vitality’s small-format industrial fusion expertise. Zap Vitality is a participant within the U.S. Division of Vitality’s (DOE) Milestone-Primarily based Fusion Improvement Program, and can obtain DOE funding based mostly on reaching improvement milestones to assist the design of a fusion pilot plant.
Lastly, as two of over 155 individuals within the World Methane Pledge, the U.S. and the UAE will speed up their respective home methane reductions, work collectively to assist nations endeavor methane abatement, and name on others to do the identical by advancing methane discount tasks, strengthening methane requirements and rules, addressing methane tremendous emitter occasions, and figuring out applicable financing for methane discount.
Companions in Area Exploration
As founding nation members of the Artemis Accords, His Highness President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed and President Biden bolstered the U.S. and UAE’s groundbreaking cooperation in area, the way forward for human exploration, and our shared curiosity in deepening our understanding of the universe.
The leaders recalled the position of this partnership within the historic launch of the primary Arab probe to Mars, the Hope Probe in 2021, and the ensuing and ongoing world scientific collaboration and contribution to the examine of Mars’ ambiance. This strategic partnership in deep area missions is additional exemplified by the UAE Area Company’s announcement of the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt, the primary multi-asteroid tour and touchdown mission to the principle belt, with the companion, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Area Physics on the College of Colorado Boulder.
The leaders highlighted the January 2024 Mohammed bin Rashid Area Middle settlement with NASA for the Middle to supply an airlock for Gateway, humanity’s first area station to orbit the Moon supported by NASA’s missions for long-term Moon exploration underneath the Artemis Program. The airlock will enable crew and tools transfers to-and-from the liveable surroundings of Gateway’s pressurized modules to the vacuum of area. This settlement may also allow the primary Emirati astronaut to fly to the Gateway for joint exploration of the Moon.
This cooperation builds on NASA and the UAE’s earlier human spaceflight collaboration. In 2019, Hazaa Al Mansouri grew to become the primary Emirati astronaut to fly to area throughout a go to to the Worldwide Area Station (ISS), the place he labored with NASA to carry out experiments and academic outreach. A second Emirati astronaut, Sultan Al Neyadi, launched to the ISS in 2023, the place he participated within the floating laboratory’s scientific analysis to advance human data and enhance life on Earth. The leaders welcomed continued coaching of astronauts, together with two Emirati astronaut candidates in coaching on the Johnson Area Middle, in addition to ongoing work on Mars analysis and scientific research to assist mutual exploration targets.
Sharing the frequent spirit and ambition of humanity’s journey in area, the leaders reaffirmed the rules of the Artemis Accords to discover and use outer area for peaceable functions and usher in a brand new period of exploration, in addition to obligations underneath the Outer Area Treaty, together with the requirement that nations not place in orbit across the Earth any objects carrying nuclear weapons or every other form of weapons of mass destruction.
Companions in Safety and Protection
His Highness President Sheikh Mohamed and President Biden praised the sturdy safety and protection partnership with the UAE. President Biden strongly affirmed america’ dedication to the United Arab Emirates’ safety and territorial protection, and to facilitating its potential to acquire mandatory capabilities to defend its individuals and territory towards exterior threats. The leaders reaffirmed their dedication to a robust bilateral safety and protection relationship and to increasing protection and safety cooperation to bolster joint protection capabilities towards exterior threats, together with by the Division of Protection’s State Partnership Program.
The leaders affirmed a shared imaginative and prescient of an interconnected, peaceable, tolerant, and affluent area as outlined by President Biden in the course of the GCC+3 Summit Assembly in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on July 16, 2022. They reviewed the proud legacy of standing shoulder-to-shoulder, in peace and in battle, together with the UAE’s assist for American-led counterterrorism missions for the reason that assaults in New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington on September 11, 2001, to discourage threats, de-escalate conflicts, and cut back tensions globally. Particularly, the leaders recalled america and the United Arab Emirates standing alongside one another within the world coalition towards Da’esh, and prior conflicts: Somalia, the Balkans, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.
The leaders reviewed ongoing initiatives and investments in superior programs which have made the United Arab Emirates some of the succesful U.S. navy companions within the area, along with a strong schedule of bilateral and multilateral workouts. They underscored the significance of strengthening efforts to fight regional threats, advance counterterrorism initiatives, reinforce maritime safety and counter-piracy efforts, improve safety cooperation, and intercept illicit shipments of weaponry and expertise.
The leaders mentioned deepening funding in U.S. protection programs and acknowledged that military-to-military cooperation with the United Arab Emirates’ armed companies helps guarantee interoperability with america by the availability of superior protection articles and companies. They additional determined to discover potential funding in our most superior protection programs and to take care of common exchanges to deepen partnership in analysis and improvement.
The leaders reaffirmed the 2017 Protection Cooperation Settlement, an essential step for each nations that underscored their very important and longstanding collaboration in defeating terrorist teams, resembling Da’esh and al-Qaida, securing regional stability, and combatting threats towards their frequent pursuits together with terrorist financing. They underscored the significance of the annual Joint Army Dialogue because the foremost bilateral protection discussion board for advancing the U.S.-UAE protection partnership, together with reviewing shared safety pursuits, in addition to discussing strategic aims for the connection and challenges within the area, resembling maritime safety, counter-piracy, counterterrorism cooperation, and area consciousness within the Center East, the Indian Ocean, and East Africa. They additional famous the popularity by the Safety Council in Decision 2686 that hate speech, racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, associated types of intolerance, gender discrimination and acts of extremism can contribute to driving the outbreak, escalation and recurrence of battle.
Designation as a Main Protection Companion of america
Acknowledging the U.S. and UAE’s deepening safety partnership and cooperation in superior expertise and acquisition, shared curiosity in stopping battle and de-escalation, President Biden at the moment acknowledged the United Arab Emirates as a Main Protection Companion of america, joined by solely India, to additional improve protection cooperation and safety within the Center East, East Africa, and the Indian Ocean areas. This distinctive designation as a Main Protection Companion will enable for unprecedented cooperation by joint coaching, workouts, and military-to-military collaboration, between the navy forces of america, the UAE, and India, in addition to different frequent navy companions, in furtherance of regional stability.
Each leaders dedicated to shut and sustained cooperation amongst our militaries.
Companions in a Steady, Built-in, and Affluent Center East and Wider Area
The leaders careworn the significance of reaching a peaceable resolution to the dispute over the three islands, Better Tunb, Lesser Tunb, and Abu Musa, by bilateral negotiations or the Worldwide Court docket of Justice, in accordance with the foundations of worldwide regulation together with the UN Constitution.
The leaders mentioned persisting and rising threats to peace and stability within the Center East and the broader area. They renewed their dedication to upholding worldwide regulation, notably worldwide humanitarian regulation, work with events to resolve conflicts and defend civilians, and to supply urgently wanted assist to alleviate human struggling. They reiterated the significance of sustainable and enduring options to the safety threats within the area, together with these posed by non-state terrorist actors. They mentioned the enduring significance of the Abraham Accords and persevering with on the trail of peace, integration, and prosperity within the area.
The leaders mentioned the conflict in Gaza. They underscored their dedication to proceed working collectively in direction of ending the battle, calling for a long-lasting and sustainable ceasefire and the discharge of hostages and detainees in accordance with the United Nations Safety Council Decision (UNSCR) 2735, and affirmed that every one sides to the battle should adhere to their obligations underneath worldwide humanitarian regulation. President Biden counseled the UAE’s extraordinary humanitarian efforts in Gaza, which have been crucial in addressing the humanitarian disaster, together with by the launch of a maritime hall for motion of assist, opening a discipline hospital in Gaza, and supporting evacuations of wounded civilians and most cancers sufferers.
The 2 leaders emphasised the continuing want for the pressing, unhindered, and sustained supply of life-saving humanitarian help, at a scale commensurate with the rising wants among the many civilian inhabitants all through Gaza. They referred to as on all events to make sure the protection, safety, and sustained entry of assist staff to all these in want, and to create the situations wanted to facilitate an efficient humanitarian response in Gaza.
His Highness President Sheikh Mohamed counseled the mediation efforts by america, together with Egypt and Qatar, to achieve a long-lasting and sustainable ceasefire and hostage launch deal to assist finish the conflict in Gaza. His Highness additionally echoed the rules laid out by President Biden on Could 31, 2024, and careworn the significance of constructing on this proposal as a way to create a severe political horizon for negotiation. To that finish, the leaders mentioned a path to stabilization and restoration that responds to the humanitarian disaster, establishes regulation and order, and lays the groundwork for accountable governance. The leaders expressed their dedication to the two-State resolution, whereby a sovereign and contiguous Palestinian state lives side-by-side in peace and safety with Israel, as the one solution to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian battle in accordance with the internationally-recognized parameters and the Arab Peace Initiative. They careworn the necessity to chorus from all unilateral measures that undermine the two-State resolution, and to protect the historic established order of Jerusalem’s holy websites, recognizing the particular position of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan on this regard.
On the battle in Sudan, the leaders expressed their deep concern over the tragic affect the violence has had on the Sudanese individuals and on neighboring nations. Each leaders expressed alarm on the tens of millions of people who’ve been displaced by the conflict, the a whole lot of hundreds experiencing famine, and the atrocities dedicated by the belligerents towards the civilian inhabitants. They careworn that there might be no navy resolution to the battle in Sudan and underscored their agency and unwavering place on the crucial for concrete and speedy motion to realize a long-lasting cessation of hostilities, the return to the political course of, and transition to civilian-led governance.
Each leaders reaffirmed their shared dedication to de-escalate the battle, alleviate the struggling of the individuals of Sudan, guarantee humanitarian help reaches the Sudanese individuals, and forestall Sudan from attracting transnational terrorist networks as soon as once more. Noting their shared concern concerning the threat of imminent atrocities, notably as combating continues in Darfur, they underscored that every one events to the battle should adjust to their obligations underneath worldwide humanitarian regulation, and all people and teams that commit conflict crimes should be held accountable. The leaders emphasised that the precedence proper now should be the safety of civilians, notably girls, youngsters and the aged, securing humanitarian pauses as a way to scale up and facilitate the motion of humanitarian help into the nation and throughout battle traces, and guaranteeing the supply of assist to these in want, particularly to probably the most weak.
Companions in Our on-line world
The leaders emphasised that security and stability in our on-line world is crucial for digital financial development and improvement, and reaffirmed their dedication to an open, interoperable, safe, and dependable web, underpinned by the multistakeholder mannequin of web governance.
They dedicated to deepen cooperation on cybersecurity and to boost cyber collaboration to guard crucial infrastructure, counter malicious cyber exercise by state and non-state actors, and famous that the UAE’s important contributions to the Worldwide Counter Ransomware Initiative displays the power of our cooperation. The leaders dedicated to advertise stability in our on-line world based mostly on the applicability of worldwide regulation together with the United Nations Constitution, the promotion of voluntary norms of accountable state habits throughout peacetime, and the event and implementation of confidence constructing measures between states.
Trying Ahead
The USA and the United Arab Emirates are each entrepreneurial nations, joined collectively by a relentless deal with the longer term. Our aspirations are rooted in a standard resolve to pursue progressive partnerships in new fields, together with AI, meals safety, infrastructure funding, and provide chain resilience, at the same time as we proceed to strengthen the foundational ingredient of our partnership: our longstanding people-to-people ties. These connections between our nations drive progress and develop horizons, from clear vitality applied sciences, to AI, protection cooperation, area exploration, and ongoing coordination throughout precedence areas of science, schooling, and tradition. This primary-ever official go to by a President of the United Arab Emirates to america units a brand new basis for our nations’ cooperation for many years to come back.”
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