UK/UAE Joint Committee

This file relates to a meeting of the UK-UAE Joint Committee in London on 5 August 1981. The Joint Committee met at regular intervals after its establishment in 1976, and was jointly chaired by Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Douglas Hurd and his UAE counterpart Rashid Abdulla Al Nuaimi. The file contains correspondence concerning:

• The agenda, programme and delegations
• Problems relating to a food consumption survey
• Transport arrangements, including a map of London showing major routes to the meeting venue in Chevening, near Sevenoaks
• UAE media coverage of the Joint Committee, including an extract from Al Ittihad, 7 dated August 1981

It also contains:

• Briefing notes on the Abu Dhabi Fund for Arab Economic Development
• Briefing notes on 'other co-operation', including reference to agriculture, aid, and the Food Supply Analysis Group at Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford
• A record of a conversation between Hurd and Abdulla, including reference to: the Palestine Liberation Organization, Israel, and the ceasefire agreement in Lebanon; Gulf cooperation; links between the Gulf Cooperation Council and the European Economic Community; relations between Oman and South Yemen
• UK-UAE relations; and debts incurred with British banks by the Ruler of Ajman Sheikh Rashid Bin Humaid Al Nuaimi
• A note on cultural cooperation
• A record of a conversation between the two delegations, including reference to: the Arab-Israeli conflict; Gulf co-operation; the Iran-Iraq war; the Soviet Union and Afghanistan; discussion of high US interest rates at the Ottawa Summit; and bilateral cooperation relating to culture, health, commerce and development aid