UAE and Italy A historical friendship and a mutual desire to develop and protect common interests

H.E. Stefania Proietti 

Mayor of Assisi

The city of Assisi supports cooperation between Italy and the United Arab Emirates having known the sensitivity of the people of the Arab Emirates through the leadership, its Ministers and the Ambassador in Italy.

In particular, we were struck by the solidarity expressed by the UAE in this period of pandemic towards the most fragile people in the territory of Assisi.

In view of the recovery from this dramatic crisis that has been gripping us for a year, we welcome the cooperation between the UAE and Italy and Assisi, in view of Expo Dubai 2020, a great event that will be able to relaunch tourism and the internationality of our country and of our city.

The link between the UAE and the City of San Francesco is significant on the basis of universal values such as ecology and sustainable development, equal opportunities between men and women - I am pleased to remember, as the first woman mayor of Assisi, how much the legislation of the Emirates Arabs are in the vanguard for the contribution of women in politics - and fraternity: the encyclical Fratelli Tutti, signed by Pope Francis in Assisi on 3 October last, follows the direction indicated by the Holy Father in the "Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together" during the historic apostolic journey of 2019 to the UAE.