About

About the Mission

The Permanent Mission of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to the United Nations (UN) works to advance the UAE’s interests in multilateral settings and strengthen the organisation’s vitality. The UAE remains committed to advancing sustainable development for all, finding shared solutions to global problems, and addressing international threats to peace and security. The UAE champions the international rules-based order and encourages the consideration of regional perspectives by the Security Council and other UN bodies. As a recent member of the UN Security Council, the UAE advanced several efforts to address regional security during a time of increased conflicts.

Our deep commitment to development and humanitarian assistance is demonstrated through our significant contributions to relief and development projects around the world. Our dedication to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is core to our work at home and abroad. We advocate for the advancement of reform of the UN to ensure it is more efficient, fit-for-purpose, and responsive to global challenges.

Through multilateral engagement, we share our model for modern governance with the world. Gender equality and women’s empowerment are at the forefront of our foreign policy, and we unapologetically promote the role of the next generation in shaping policy. The UAE is also dedicated to promoting tolerance and peaceful coexistence, and our key efforts within the UN reflect these values.

Whether convening the world to deliver a historic consensus on critical issues, or serving as a bridge for ideas, culture, and commerce to transit the globe, the UAE is now, and will forever be, a principled partner to creating a more just, peaceful, inclusive, and sustainable world.

Gender Equality. When women and girls are included as equal partners, across all sectors, and at all levels, communities, sustainable development, and economies thrive. This reflects the UAE’s longstanding belief that has underpinned its domestic and foreign policy.

Since UN Women’s inception in 2010, the UAE has been a core contributor to the agency and has provided a total of $61 million between 2010-2025. The UAE strongly supports equal access to quality education for women and girls, women’s economic empowerment, as well as the need to strengthen women’s roles in and access to digital and emerging technologies, including AI, to close the gender digital divide. Across the conflict continuum, the data is clear: women’s full, equal, and meaningful participation in peace processes leads to more durable peace. In this spirit, the UAE will continue to prioritise the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 5—gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls—as well as advance the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda at the UN.

Sustainability. The UAE is a champion of sustainability across all elements of economy and society. UAE investments in renewable energy, decarbonisation and innovative green technology are accelerating both at home and abroad. Serving as the COP28 President in 2023, the UAE helped mark a major step forward in global climate action, with the adoption of the historic UAE Consensus which united 198 countries in commitment to tripling renewable energy, doubling energy efficiency, and transitioning away from fossil fuels. COP28 also saw the operationalisation of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage, and the UAE has since emerged into a hub for climate finance, hosting the Global Climate Finance Center and Alterra, the world’s largest private climate fund.

As a long-time leader in international assistance on water, with initiatives such as the UAE Water Aid Foundation and Mohamed bin Zayed Water Initiative, the UAE looks forward to co-hosting the UN Water Conference in December 2026 with the Republic of Senegal. The conference aims to drive global efforts to accelerate progress on Sustainable Development Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation.

Innovation. The UAE is a rising leader in emerging technologies such as AI and space satellite systems. As such technologies entered multilateral decision-making, the UAE and Switzerland led the establishment of the Secretary General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation in 2018. We provided intellectual capital, financial resources, and guidance for the work of this multinational panel—co-chaired by Melinda Gates and Jack Ma—which was tasked with determining how to improve international cooperation in the digital space across areas such as trust and security, global connectivity, and AI.

The UAE continues to work with partners to harness the potential of emerging technologies in advancing economic development, South-South cooperation, and the maintenance of peace and security. We embrace the Pact for the Future and Global Digital Compact and look forward to working with partners as the new Global Dialogue on AI Governance and the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI gets underway.

Humanitarian action. The UAE remains a steadfast partner in global humanitarian action, consistently championing urgent and coordinated international responses to the growing number of conflicts and crises worldwide. At the United Nations, the UAE works closely with Member States and key agencies to support rapid, safe, and unhindered delivery and access of life-saving assistance across conflict zones and to protect humanitarian workers on the front lines. Looking ahead, the UAE is championing the use of digital innovations to strengthen humanitarian operations and enable faster, more efficient responses to crises.