WAR DEAD REMEMBERED

Emirates News Agency
November 12, 2006 Sunday 11:55 AM EST

ABU DHABI, 12th November 2006 (WAM): Those who have died in the wars
of the last hundred years were remembered this evening at the annual
Remembrance Day service held at St. Andrew’s Church in Abu Dhabi.

The service was attended by Sheikh Ali Al Hashimi, Religious Adviser at
th Presidential Affairs Ministry, ambassadors and heads of diplomatic
missions from over thirty five countries and a large congregation.

In an address, the Vicar of St. Andrews, the Reverend Clive Windebank,
told the congregation: "we are here to remember and to mourn those
cut down in the wars of the 20th Century and the early years of the
21st Century." "Bloodshed continues, and war takes on new and fearful
forms," he said, "and we mourn for all humanity."

"Over the last century, there has been a calamitous catalogue of
carnage of human loves," he said, "and that carnage continues."

"Ultimately, however," he added, "God will triumph overall, because
he is all-loving." Readings during the service were delivered by
the British Ambassador, edward Oakden, and the American Ambassador,
Michelle Sison.

The annual Remembrance Day service was first initiated at the end of
the First World War, and is held on the Sunday closest to the 11th
November, the day on which the ceasefire at the end of that war came
into effect.

Besides the United Arab Emirates, Britain and the United States,
, other countries represented at the service included Canada, the
member states of the European Union, Russia, Australia, South Africa,
, Brazil, Argentina, Armenia and several Muslim and Arab countries,
including Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt, Algeria, Bosnia,
Iran, Pakistan and Bangladesh.