Dubai Municipality takes part in New York summit

New York, June 12, 2012 (WAM) - Eng Hussain Nasser Lootah, director general of Dubai Municipality and Abdul Qader Al Jasmi, director of Legal Affairs Department, participated in the New York Global Partners Summit held recently in New York City. The civic body’s participation came in response to the invitation to take part in the summit from the New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, considering it’s willing to be an active member of Global Partners Programmes, Eng. Lootah said. The municipality’s membership in Global Partners, which comprises over 80 metropolitan cities around the world, is aimed at exchanging best practices and experiences in the fields of municipal work and sustainable development issues, difficulties and challenges faced by the cities in addition to sharing outstanding successful practices, he continued. The programme has given a chance to students of Dubai schools to learn about practices of different schools in other member cities online in line with the syllabus of Global Partners, he added. The three-day summit covered this year mainly corporate governance and transparency on which Bloomberg delivered a presentation followed by a forum of mayors and directors and workshops, focusing on the subject. – Emirates News Agency, WAM