The Ministry of Culture and Youth launched national Flag Day as part of the 37th UAE National Day celebrations in December 2008. This initiative was launched as a testament to the high value placed on the flag in the hearts of local and international residents of the UAE.

The flag flies high and proud like our country and its people, and we believe it is our duty to protect the sanctity and integrity of the UAE flag and always raise it with pride. We should salute it wherever we may be and look toward it with respect and reverence. We must help distribute the flag and take it with us on our journey through life as an expression of our national pride.