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NA.0042.00001939

Saeed Bin Ahmad Al Otaiba chairing the Abu Dhabi Chamber & Commerce meeting with the Soviet Trade delegation, 18 February 1989

Saeed Bin Ahmad Al Otaiba chairing the Abu Dhabi Chamber meeting with the Soviet Trade delegation.

FO 371/140088

Employment of J W Cummins as administrative consultant in the Gulf, 1959

This file contains correspondence relating to the employment of J W Cummins as administrative consultant in the Gulf.

OD 70/126

United Arab Emirates, 28 February 1975 - 1 June 1986

This file contains correspondence realting to the request by the UAE of the National Geographic Mapping Consultancy to supervise a Topo Mapping project. It includes the Consultant's notes of his visit to Abu Dhabi.

NA.0042.00001737

Sheikh Shakhbut Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Sheikh Khalid Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, and Saeed Bin Taimur., 28 December 1955

Sheikh Shakhbut Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Sheikh Khaled Bin Sultan Al Nahyan and Saeed Bin Taimur during a meeting in Al Ain.

NA.0042.00001731

Sheikh Shakhbut Bin Sultan Al Nahyan and Said Bin Taimur in Al Ain., 20 December 1955

Sheikh Shakhbut Bin Sultan Al Nahyan meeting with Said Bin Taimur of Oman in Al Ain.

FCO 164/26

Trucial States: frontiers, 1 May 1952 - 31 May 1961

This file contains correspondence relating to the settlement of the inter-Trucial States boundaries. It includes study reports, telegrams, minutes and notes exchanged by the British Political Agents and Residents with the Foreign Office for the amicable settlement of the internal frontiers of the Trucial States.

FCO 164/1

Trucial States: treaties with the UK prior to 1906, 1 January 1906 - 31 December 1906

This file contains a collection of Arabic and English copies of the treaties and engagements in force prior to 1906 between the British Government and the Trucial Chiefs of the Arab Coast.

FCO 93/1248

Attitude of the United Arab Emirates to the Arab/Israel dispute, 22 February 1977 - 21 December 1977

This file contains correspondence relating to the views of United Arab Emirates and Qatar concerning the situation in the Middle East, particularly the Arab/Israel dispute.

FCO 47/1155

British community in the United Arab Emirates, 1 January 1982 - 31 December 1982

This file contains correspondence relating to deterioration in the standards of behaviour among the British Community in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, with a report on the British community in the six Northern Emirates of the United Arab Emirates.

FCO 30/3044

European political co-operation and the Middle East: Euro-Arab dialogue and Experts' Meeting, 1 January 1975 - 31 December 1975

This file contains correspondence relating to the Euro-Arab Dialogue. It includes background notes and briefs for the experts’ meetings at Abu Dhabi on 22 to 27 November 1975 and at Brussels from 23 to 24 October 1975. Some of the briefs include political affairs of the United Arab Emirates, Palestine Liberation Organisation, the Arab League, industrialisation, infrastructure, financial cooperation, agriculture, and rural development.

FCO 17/310

Visit by King Hussein to Baghdad and the Gulf, 1968

This file contains correspondence relating to King Hussein’s tour of Gulf States; Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.

FCO 13/1405

Cultural relations between the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates, 1 January 1982 - 31 December 1982

This file contains correspondence relating to the medical, cultural, technical, trade and educational cooperation between the United Kingdom (UK) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

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