The UAE has created the world’s first tip for happiness
DUBAI, 20 Mar — RIA Novosti. The UAE has established the world’s first Council on happiness (World Happiness Council), which will represent an annual global report Global Happiness Report, according to the publication Arabian Business.
The report will be available at the annual government summit of World Government Summit, held in UAE.
The formation of the Council of 13 members announced Vice-President and Prime Minister of UAE, ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum.
According to him, “the world today needs a new approach to achieving the happiness of mankind, it must be based on cooperation and integration of efforts, and finding common points of contact for reinforcing positive values.” To achieve this goal, he said, the necessary changes in the work of government bodies in the world and “the true realization of the goals of international organizations”.
The statement is timed to the celebration of the international Day of happiness on March 20. Thus, said the Prime Minister of the UAE, the country “sends a positive message to the world”.
The Council will meet twice a year. He also will receive administrative support from the UN. To lead the world Council of happiness will be Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs (Jeffrey Sachs). Sachs, a famous American economist, considered one of the developers of “shock therapy” in Russia, Bolivia, Poland. Part of a group of economic advisers to Boris Yeltsin.