US expats in Dubai hold early celebration of Fourth of July

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Hundreds of US expats, diplomats and friends of the US from various countries came together to celebrate the American Independence Day months ahead of Fourth of July on Thursday night in Dubai.  Read the full story here: https://gulfnews.com/business/uae-us-sign-partnership-to-invest-100b-to-produce-100gw-of-clean-energy-1.91653124  See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km  Subscribe to Gulf News on YouTube and watch more of our videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/GulfNewsTV  #UAEnews #Dubai #US

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00:00We're really excited to be celebrating our National Day in February because it coincides

00:11with our President's Day, so it's a very important holiday for us.

00:15And this is an opportunity to really showcase the really strong U.S.-UAE partnership.

00:20The United States is celebrating its 246th anniversary this year.

00:26We're celebrating the day in July in 1776 when our founding fathers signed the Declaration

00:35of Independence.

00:36We typically celebrate our National Day in February, which is the month that we celebrate

00:43what we call President's Day, which is a commemoration of the birthday of our first president, George

00:52Washington, and our greatest president, Abraham Lincoln.

00:57So we're taking advantage of the beautiful weather at this time of year in Dubai and

01:02the proximity of those two very important birthdays in our history.

01:07We're very excited that our guest of honor tonight is His Excellency Abdullah bin Tughalmari,

01:12the economy minister.

01:14And I think that's really important because the trade relationship between the U.S. and

01:17the UAE is incredibly important.

01:20It goes across countless sectors.

01:22It is very strong and it's very deep.

01:24And so it's an opportunity to celebrate that as well.

01:26In addition to economic and trade partners here tonight, these are our friends.

01:30These are our friends across so many industries, across the arts, culture, education.

01:35There are about 50,000 Americans who live in the UAE, and yes, many of them will be

01:41here, many of our fellow American citizens will be here tonight.

01:46We are really looking forward to interacting with them.

01:50And we hope that we have put together an event that they can be proud of as Americans.

01:57Our theme tonight is life, liberty, and the pursuit of a sustainable future.

02:02We're also focused on our innovation partnerships.

02:05The United States has been here since the beginning of the UAE's founding, and many

02:08of our American companies have worked in partnership here in the UAE to develop the country and

02:14to really provide infrastructure and resources for the Emiratis to move forward, to advance

02:20there and achieve their goals.

02:21So we're very excited to spotlight some of those innovation partnerships and also to

02:26spotlight some of our unique American innovations.

02:29Life, liberty, and the pursuit of a future was the theme of our pavilion at Expo Dubai

02:342020.

02:36And because the UAE is hosting COP28 this year, we thought it would be good to introduce

02:42the concept of sustainability.

02:45So life, liberty, and the pursuit of a sustainable future.

02:50And tonight, in my remarks and in decorations and in themes of the event, we'll be talking

02:56about how the tremendous creativity of America's companies, of America's universities, of American

03:05laboratories that continue to bring to the world life-changing technologies.

03:13American scientific and technological leadership has been a constant throughout our nation's

03:19history and it remains intact today.

03:24And we believe that we have a very important role to play in the future of this country.

03:31This is a country that is transitioning away from its dependence on hydrocarbons and it's

03:37moving towards a future based upon a knowledge-based economy, incorporating the very best of technology.

03:47Our companies are very active in all of the STEM fields.

03:51Aviation is a very important field for us here and that's a field where sustainability

03:59is a very, very important theme.

04:03American companies and research institutions are constantly innovating and they're constantly

04:13introducing new ideas and new products to the marketplace.

04:17And as they do, they're creating new areas of collaboration.

04:23We're doing a lot of very exciting things with the UAE in terms of genomics.

04:28What's happening on cloud computing, advanced health sciences is another interesting area.

04:37And this is just going to continue.

04:39As America continues to innovate, we're generating new areas of collaboration.

04:44Well, there's a very important mission coming up.

04:48An Emirati astronaut will be going on a historic mission to space on an American rocket very,

04:55very soon.

04:57And that's really a wonderful example of how a relationship that was initially developed

05:07through extraction of resources buried deep in the earth has now grown to include the

05:16exploration and study of the moon, the planets, and the stars.

05:23So that's a really great story about the arc of the historic relationship between the

05:29United States and the UAE.

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