Mohammed bin Rashid: Life experiences have taught me that crises are the best time to develop and think outside the norm

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister, and Ruler of Dubai, may God protect him, emphasized that crises are the best time to develop and think outside the norm.

His Highness said in a post on his official account on the “X” platform: “In 2020, before the Covid crisis… we announced from the Dubai Council a goal for Dubai’s non-oil foreign trade to reach 2 trillion dirhams by 2025… Then the Covid crisis came, and the team informed me of the impossibility of achieving the goal as a result of this crisis.” Which struck the global trade movement.

His Highness added: “Life experiences have taught me that crises are the best time for development and thinking outside the ordinary. We launched many initiatives, developed policies, changed and facilitated procedures during the largest global crisis that lasted for nearly two years… Today, a year before the deadline, we have reached our goal, thanks to God and his success. In Dubai we say What we do…and we do what we say.”