Dubai sets Guinness Record for the most nationalities in a human chain

The excellent unity and harmony in the UAE create a new achievement as Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) set a Guiness World Record for a human chain with the biggest number of nationalities when commuters from 96 countries joined their hands together on Public Transport Day.
Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Cabinet Member and Minister of Tolerance and Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of RTA and Khalifa Mohammed Al Suwaidi, General Coordinator of the World Tolerance Summit, have attended RTA’s celebrations of Public Transport Day initiative held at Etisalat Metro Station in Dubai.
Al Tayer presented to Sheikh Nahyan the first exclusive nol card featuring a design commemorating the Year of Zayed. Sheikh Nahyan then received the Guinness World Records certificate for the most nationalities in a human chain of (96) nationalities, which emulates the superb diversity and peaceful co-existence characterizing the UAE.
Sheikh Nahyan posed for photos with the team of the Public Transport Day. RTA organized this event in cooperation with the Ministry of Tolerance and the International Institute for Tolerance.
Sheikh Nahyan, Al Tayer and Al Suwaidi then boarded the Dubai Metro at Etisalat Station, passed by four stations up to the HQ Station, and from there back to Etisalat Station. Sheikh Nahyan chatted with Metro riders taking part in the human series and praised their role in showing the public the importance of using public transport in the daily mobility of people.