Celebrating the success of the UAE in winning the global bid to host the World Expo 2020 in Dubai, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Dubai Executive Council, raised the UAE national flag at the top of the spire of Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building.
In a video that became viral hours after the prince posted it on his Facebook, Sheikh Hamdan is seen waving the national flag from the highest point of Burj Khalifa, 828 metres (2,716.5 ft) high.
The crown prince wrote a message: “This flag is accustomed to being at the top, and all the summits will belong to it,” he wrote in Arabic.
On Wednesday, the UAE beat bids from Turkey’s Izmir, Brazil’s Sao Paulo, Russia’s Yekaterinburg after three rounds of voting by delegates of the 168-nation Bureau International des Expositions in Paris.
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