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Abu Dhabi: United Arab Emirates (UAE) President and ruler of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan passed away on Friday, confirmed the local government. He was 73.
In an official statement, the government said, “The Ministry of Presidential Affairs condoles the people of the UAE, the Arab and Islamic nation and the world over the demise of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the president of the UAE.”
Sheikh Khalifa was serving as the UAE President and Abu Dhabi Ruler since November 3, 2004. He succeeded his father, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, who served as the UAE’s first president since the union in 1971 until he passed away on November 2, 2004.
Born in 1948, Sheikh Khalifa was the second president of the UAE and the 16th ruler of Abu Dhabi, capital city of the UAE. He also served as the chairman of the Supreme Petroleum Council since the late 1980s.
Deemed as one of the richest monarchs in the world, Khalifa was the chairman of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, which managed USD 875 billion in assets, the largest amount managed by a nation’s head of state in the world.
On January 4, 2010, the world’s tallest man-made structure, originally known as Burj Dubai, was renamed as Burj Khalifa in his honour, after Abu Dhabi gave Dubai USD 10 billion to help pay off its debts.
In 2018, Forbes named Khalifa in its list of the world’s most powerful people. More details coming on UAE President Passed Away.
