United Arab Emirates Head of state
Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
محمد بن زايد آل نهيانPresident of the United Arab Emirates since May 2022 (de facto ruler since 2014 as Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi). Architect of Emirati foreign policy and the Abraham Accords.
- Country
- United Arab Emirates
- Party
- Independent / unaligned
- Role
- Head of state
Individual position
Scored from Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan's own documents rather than inherited from a party — capturing where this figure diverges from the party line. Provisional, document-grounded estimate; see methodology.
On the record
Quotes attributed to Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan that have passed verification. Each carries a year, the context of the statement, and at least one source citation. Browse the full corpus or play the "Who said it?" game.
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Israel's treacherous and reprehensible attack against the State of Qatar constituted a flagrant violation of its territorial integrity and of the security of the Arabian Gulf region.
يشكّل اعتداء إسرائيل الغادر والمشين على دولة قطر انتهاكاً صارخاً لسلامة أراضيها ولأمن منطقة الخليج العربي.
Source documents
Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →
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Speech Arabic 2025-09-27 UAE statement to the 80th UN General Assembly, delivered by Minister of State Lana Zaki Nusseibeh, 27 Sep 2025 (English; UAE institutional position under MBZ)
Madam President, Today, the world is marked by turmoil, conflict, and humanitarian crises. Threats to state sovereignty, proliferation risks and extremist ideologies persist, undermining the foundations of stability…
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Speech English 2024-09-30 UAE — 79 UN GA Speech (Minister of State Shakhboot Al Nahyan, 30 Sep 2024, Sudan-SAF-attack-on-UAE-Ambassador + Iran-3-islands)
Unofficial English Translation. Statement by His Excellency Sheikh Shakhboot bin Nahyan Al Nahyan, Minister of State of the United Arab Emirates at The General Debate of the 79th Session of the United Nations General…
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Speech English 2024-09-30 UAE — 79th UNGA address — Gaza ceasefire, Iran islands, Palestinian recognition (30 September 2024)
From the podium of this General Assembly, a place that has always embraced our ambitions and agonies, we call upon all of you to join hands and work together to create a better world for our sons and daughters, and for…
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Speech English 2023-12-01 Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan — Opening statement at the COP28 World Climate Action Summit, Dubai, 1 December 2023
Your Highnesses and Excellencies, Your Excellency the Secretary-General of the United Nations, distinguished guests, Peace be upon you all, I welcome you to the United Arab Emirates and to COP28. […] Our meeting comes…
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Speech English 2023-09-23 UAE — 78th UNGA address — 'Zero Problems with Neighbours', pre-Oct-7 framing, COP28 launch (23 September 2023)
The UAE declared this year the Year of Sustainability, under the theme 'Today for Tomorrow' to honour our shared responsibility to present and future generations, who deserve to live in a world that is safe, and…
How to cite
Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.
In-text: (Gara, 2026)
Per-record citation
APA 7Reference list · academic default
Gara, T. (2026). Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mbz-ae
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mbz-ae.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-mbz-ae,
title = {{Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Politician profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mbz-ae},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
} Dataset / working-paper citation
If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.
APA 7Preprint
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
title = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
type = {Preprint},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
} First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.