Day two of the Arab Media Summit belonged to the Euronews Forum, where ministers from the UAE, Azerbaijan and Georgia took the main stage for a session on building the national narrative. The UAE Economy and Tourism Minister Abdulla bin Touq Al Marri was asked whether the Gulf had been rattled by recent events. We design the economy for future storms, exactly.
For the next crisis that we are ready for. And we will be prepared," Al Marri said. Yes, our banks stood still.
Our government stood still. But resilience is built," he added. "And resilience is the insurance of economies.
And that's the kind of mindset and the policy we're putting into what we design today.” Al Marri was also very clear about how governments should communicate during times of crisis: “When a crisis or when a storm hits the shores, communication shouldn't be louder. Communication should be constant.” "Think it, say why, say how, then go and do it. That is Dubai," he concluded.
Alongside him, Assistant to the President of Azerbaijan Hikmet Hajiyev set out Baku's case on the peace process with Armenia, signed in a joint declaration with the United States in Washington in August 2025. "We won in the war, but we are winning in the peace," he said. He also noted Azerbaijan's joining the Central Asian leaders' platform, taking the grouping from five members to six.
Georgia's Foreign Minister Maka Botchorishvili completed the panel. Both Botchorishvili and Hajiyev said their countries have been targets of sustained disinformation campaigns. Elsewhere in the summit, UAE Minister of State Noura Al Kaabi told a session on media and diplomacy that public diplomacy matters most when conventional political channels recede.
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