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4/15/25, 4:36 PM Al Zeyoudi highlights UAE’s commitment to advancing global trade, investment partnerships at AIM Congress 2025 - Aletihad News…

The AIM Congress 2024, under the theme “Mapping the Future of Global Investment: The New Wave of a Globalized

Investment Landscape – Towards a New Balanced World Structure,” included more than 350 dialogue sessions, and
featured 900 speakers and experts from around the world, serving as a platform for global policymakers, business

leaders, and investors to convene and discuss key issues shaping the global economic landscape with the objective of
creating a more prosperous and sustainable global economy.

During his welcoming remarks, Al Zeyoudi said, “The UAE will continue to champion investment as an essential
catalyst of development – where investment is geared towards expanding opportunities, unlocking potential, forging

new industries, and driving prosperity. Now the 16th largest source of foreign investment in the world, allocating
US$22.3 billion to international projects in 2023 alone, impact investment is not the future for the UAE, but very much
a policy of the present. From vital infrastructure to agriculture, from energy to education, the UAE has and will continue

to use its capital to upgrade economies, drive innovation and elevate lives around the world.”

Speaking on the successful track record of outbound investment from the UAE, Dr. Thani cited several key

international projects, including over US$50 billion invested in renewable energy projects across six continents and up
to US$7 billion on integrated food parks and cold supply chains in India.

During the congress, Al Zeyoudi participated in a Ministerial Roundtable on ‘The Role of International Trade
Agreements in Building Open and Inclusive Markets,” where he highlighted ways collaborative frameworks promote

sustainable economic growth and effective responses to global trade challenges.

Al Zeyoudi outlined the success of the UAE’s Comprehensive Economic Partnership program, with its 27 deals already

concluded, eight of which are in force, and its impact on driving export growth and facilitating strategic investment into
high-priority sectors.

Al Zeyoudi also attended the opening of the third World Local Production Forum, hosted in the UAE in partnership
between the Emirates Drug Establishment and the World Health Organization (WHO).

Al Zeyoudi also engaged in bilateral discussions with senior government officials, including Rustam Minnikhanov,
Prime Minister of Tatarstan, and Hua Yuan, Vice Mayor of Shanghai, and trade and investment ministers from

countries representing all corners of the world, including the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Europe, the Balkans and
Oceania. The diversity of discussions reflects the UAE's commitment to fostering global partnerships and driving
sustainable economic growth through targeted inbound and outbound investment.

As AIM Congress 2025 unfolded, it reinforced Abu Dhabi’s strategic role as a global investment hub, encouraging

innovative approaches to tackle economic challenges. The congress demonstrated the UAE’s commitment to being a

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