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Tue 26-12-2017 17:28 PM

Committee reviews final draft of National Reading Law executive regulations

DUBAI, 26th December, 2017 (WAM) -- The committee in charge of implementing the National Reading Law
has discussed its progress in drafting the law’s executive regulations, as part of an overall organisational
framework to promote reading in the country, and the monitoring of detailed plans for several strategic
initiatives. It also reviewed the initial plans for the National Reading Month taking place in March 2018.

These discussions took place during the committee’s regular meeting at the Ministry of Cabinet Affairs and
the Future, headed by Maryam Al Hammadi, Assistant Director-General for Government Performance at the
Prime Minister’s Office, with the attendance of Mansour Al Mansouri, Director-General of the National Media
Council, NMC; Marwan Ahmed Al Sawaleh, Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Education; Mohammed Selim
Al Olama, Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Health and Community Prevention; Mohammed Ahmed bin
Abdulaziz, Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Economy for Economic Affairs; Abdullah Majid Al Ali, Acting
Executive Director and Representative of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council, and Aisha Mayran, Deputy
Secretary-General of the Dubai Executive Council.

Al Hammadi said that the committee aims to unite the various efforts to combine the law’s articles into one
comprehensive action system, which will transform reading to a sustainable individual, family and community
activity.