(MENAFN- Emirates News Agency (WAM))
ABU DHABI, 27th April, 2017 (WAM) -- H.H. Sheikh Hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chief of the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince's Court, witnessed on Thursday the ceremony on launching the Sheikh Zayed Centre's Library at the Foreign Studies University in Beijing, at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, where China is the guest of honour.
The centre aims at introducing the Arab culture and strengthening cultural exchange in a way that reflects positively on bolstering relations between the two friendly countries.
The ceremony was attended by Dr. Ali bin Tamim, Director-General of Abu Dhabi Media Company; Saif Ghobash, Director-General of the Abu Dhabi Authority for Tourism and Culture, and a number of Chinese officials.
In his speech during the ceremony, Dr. Ali bin Tamim said, "The relationship between the UAE and China is one of the most successful and special relations between the two governments and two peoples. China's links with the region and the UAE in particular are historic based on mutual respect."
Since the establishment of the UAE, the leaders of both countries exhibited their desire to establish and strengthen co-operation through constant dialogue and friendship, he said.
He added that the bridges of friendship between the UAE and China, which today witnessed one of its bright new chapters with the opening of the Sheikh Zayed Library, in co-operation with the Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Centre for Arabic Language and Islamic Studies and the Beijing Teachers' University and Publishing House, "reflects good relations between the two countries, governments and peoples."
He noted that culture does not know borders, distances, barriers and differences, but it always works on opening wide horizons and building new bridges that eventually achieve harmony and trust in the service of the relations between countries.
Dr. Tamim said that the Sheikh Zayed Centre was launched to teach the Arabic language in Beijing. His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan recently ordered to renovate the centre within the framework of friendship and desire for openness and strengthening of intellectual and cultural ties with those countries, while striving to spread values and noble Arabic and Islamic culture, he added.
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