The Emirates News Company (WAM) revealed the launch of its information solutions to cover six key global languages, in addition to the currently existing Arabic and English. The launch comes as part of efforts to more enhance the UAE's favorable photo and connect its achievements worldwide, while communicating the country's message of moderation and tolerance, and broadcasting its different information and details with the world's most prominent languages.

Additionally, the project is available in light of the National Media Council's (NMC) drive to further enhance the media sector by involving the people of the world and supplying media coverage across a wide geographical spectrum, as the UAE remains to represent a global role model for co-existence between various races, ethnic cultures and religious beliefs. The languages of WAM's news services now consists of French, Chinese, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish and Urdu, targeting a total of greater than 100 countries around the world.

Discussing the occasion, His Excellency Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of State and Chairman of the NMC, claimed: "The UAE's has actually efficiently achieved a wide series of introducing achievements and turning points thanks to the smart vision and plans of its leadership, consequently the expansion of WAM's news solutions to include eight languages contributes to additional strengthening the UAE's values that are improved tolerance, small amounts and approval of others, every one of which are key characteristics of Emiratis. The NMC has a duty and obligation to underscore these nationwide achievements according to the country's belief in constructive and favorable teamwork which has been instilled by the UAE's leadership, and because of the country's standing as a global role model for openness to the world's societies."

H.E. Al Jaber included, "Involving various nations in their own language is an important means to connect to the people of the world while highlighting the UAE's placements on a variety of regional and worldwide events and concerns, especially because of the UAE's role as a key regional player, and its focus on supporting and cementing friendship and participation with other countries in the international community."

His Excellency took place to say that the UAE has actually established itself as a global hub inclusiving greater than 200 races, while expressing confidence that communicating with different nationalities in their very own languages will certainly better increase social cohesion and the essential worths of co-existence.
Meanwhile, H.E. Mohammed Jalal Al Raisi, Executive Director of the Emirates Information Firm (WAM), said: "The launch of the multi-language information solution shows WAM's dedication to highlighting the UAE's numerous achievements and its positive image by offering a wide spectrum of news services to a large sector of the global target market."

H.E. Al Raisi declared that WAM will certainly continue to operate in line with the UAE's nationwide instructions, and in a manner that continuously preserves its accomplishments and interests by always keeping up to speed with the latest media and technical fads to successfully elevate the account of the Emirates Information Agency amongst regional and worldwide information companies.
With its 41-year history, the Emirates Information Agency (WAM) has actually seen a series of key successes and growth, including the current launch of WAM Editor, which makes it possible for reporters that work with the news agency to publish stories from anywhere in the world from the benefit of their smartphones or tablets.

In addition, WAM recently announced the launch of the WAM Live solution, which enables the public to check out the most recent local, regional and international information as soon as it breaks through a digital interactive display in order to offer a fully rounded information experience.

Furthermore, WAM has successfully made noteworthy enhancements in its strategy to wide-spread media coverage including increasing its foreign correspondents throughout the very first fifty percent of 2017 to 17 throughout different cities and capitals all over the world, releasing 43,609 press releases, relaying 47,252 photographs and boosting the number of specialized reports established by the agency to 261 from the start of the year to date.
Various other key accomplishments by WAM consist of the launch of the e-gate portal to offer solutions to its tactical partners, the conclusion of an expert handbook to guarantee the execution of global ideal practices in the area of media. Furthermore, WAM increased its reach to a great deal of nations by authorizing a MoU with ENEX to conveniently promote the exchange of media material and the circulation of WAM's video clip programs worldwide.