Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has issued a law establishing the Dubai Council to outline and deliver the emirate’s future development agenda, official sources have said.
The council will focus especially on boosting the emirate’s leading-edge competitiveness and leadership regionally and internationally, said the sources.
The new council would apparently have a legal profile and the legal capacity required to undertake the acts and dispositions that ensure the achievement of its objectives that define the features and future visions of the emirate.
The council would be chaired by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, with Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum as deputies, said the sources.
Members of the council would include Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Mohammed Abdullah Al Gergawi, Matar Mohammed Al Tayer, Lt Gen Talal Humaid Belhoul, Abdullah Mohammed Al Basti, Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, and Lt Gen Abdullah Khalifa Al Marri.
The council will reportedly look to formulate and develop the emirate’s future development agenda to support its global competitiveness and enhance its leadership and attractiveness by launching major qualitative projects and transformational initiatives.
According to the law, a commissioner-general will be entrusted with overseeing the development track, which will include several entities. He will be appointed by a decision by the chairman.
The law stipulates that the Executive Office shall assume the duties of the General Secretariat and provide the necessary support to the council and assist it in performing its duties, including administrative and technical support, preparing decisions and recommendations, and conducting research.
The Executive Office chairman or whomever he delegates shall assume the duties of the secretary-general of the Dubai Council, provided that it falls within his powers to oversee the general secretariat’s implementation of its tasks entrusted to support the council and enable it to achieve its goals.
Sheikh Mohammed reportedly stressed that the government of Dubai would continue to constantly evolve to keep pace with global developments and accelerate growth.