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His Excellency Eng. Mohammed Obaid bin Majid Al Aleeli, Director General of the Department of Industry and Economy at the department’s headquarters in the Emiri Diwan in Fujairah, received the team of the Watani Al Emarat Foundation, headed by His Excellency Dirar Belhoul Al Falasi, Executive Director of the Watani Al Falasi Foundation, and a number of officials of the departments of the Foundation. During the visit, they exchanged talks about the Protectors of Flag campaign. and science protocol.
His Excellency Eng. Mohammed Obaid bin Majid, Director General of the Department of Industry and Economy confirmed that the department's hosting of the Protectors of the Flag campaign comes within the department's support for the national awareness initiatives that are being organized on a permanent basis.
Bin Majid stressed the department's keenness to support the campaign and participate in national initiatives that promote good citizenship and national identity among citizens.
On the other hand, His Excellency Dirar Belhoul Al Falasi, Executive Director of the Watani Al Falasi Foundation, said that the Flag Protectors campaign that the Watani Al Emarat Foundation promotes every year is an embodiment of the Foundation’s national vision to promote awareness of a culture of respect for the flag of the United Arab Emirates and an affirmation of national identity and its belief that good citizenship These are practices and behaviors that are obligatory for all segments of society in order for the state flag to remain a symbol of the union's strength and a standard for national constants in the United Arab Emirates.
Al Falasi indicated that the Foundation, in its tireless and continuous quest to expand popular participation on Flag Day, has taken the initiative this year to activate the role of student volunteers and senior citizens in a large way, through coordination with many government and private agencies and influential figures in society, to mobilize the largest national popular participation in which it participates. All members of society from all age groups and spectra, believing that science is the individual’s belonging to society and the society’s belonging to the homeland and an expression of national cohesion and the values ​​of good citizenship. Therefore, everyone must share roles and tasks with cooperation and integration, to reach the desired goal of raising the flag of the homeland fluttering in the The sky"
It is worth noting that the Flag Protectors campaign is one of the Flag Day initiatives that was approved by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum - Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai - may God protect him - to become an annual event in which all citizens of the country participate, expressing their Their pride and pride in the nation and its flag and the gains of the Union.
In the end, 300 flags and a brochure of instructions for using the flag correctly were distributed to the employees of government departments in the Emirate of Fujairah.