RESTRICTED 82 rts 29/9 701 2 6/10 British Embassy Abu Dhabi -hi Liwcle 24. September 1972 2 Aus Birch inspre protan angeray) this bar belli ven. the woni GAL TAin. (mune we havent scen x unus dar abellen there imperdend request an, be UAE Ahn Doelin eichent plans hitrend. you tai ete und ist any نیا نیا کا با ما بینا G Mollison Esq Middle East Developinent Division Beirut & 29/9 E701 REGISTRY 29 SEP 1972 x 1. You will have seen a copy of my telegram number 8h to Dubai commenting, in common with most of the posts along your proposed route, that you would have a more useful visit if you cane after Ramadan. We lool forward to hearing the revised dates for your tour. 2. When I mentioned to Abdul Halik al Hamar, Under Secretary at the Abu Dhabi Ministry of Education, that you intended coming, he immediately proposed that you should stay two weels to conduct a survey, and make recommendations, on vocational training in Abu Dhabi! This should include the Vocational Training Centre, for which staff were needed from Britain. He also said that the Abu Dhabi authorities would be glad of some advice on a manpower survey they needed. I told Abdul Malik that your time in Abu Dhabi -rould be limited, but that you would doubtless be willing to have a look at his requirements when you came, to see whether we could help. 3. I think it would be useful if we could help on the lines Abdul Malik suggests. But we shall need to tread a little warily, as the fields in which he says he would welcome the benefit of your advice encroach upon the responsibilities of the linistry of Labour. For example, the Vocational Training Centre comes, I understand, under the Ministry of Labour and not the Ministry of Education. On the other hand, Abdul Halik is well placed to know what is required, since he is the Ministry of Education's representative on the Centre's Board of Goverors. I have had a preliminary word with Douglas Fickett of the British Council. He confirms that the British Council would be prepared to recruit teachers for the Vocational Training Centre, if asked to do so. et Aundhali /5. RESTRICTED
