Formation of United Arab Emirates

This file is part 'L' in a sequence relating to the Union of Arab Emirates and an agreement in principle to establish the United Arab Emirate (UAE) reached by six Rulers. It contains correspondence on:

• Meetings of UAE officials on labour, legal coordination, an official gazette and social security
• Draft laws, including on currency, and immigration and nationality; and the effect on Iranians of immigration provisions
• The views of R I Hallows of the Bank of England on currency arrangements
• Judicial relations between the Emirates
• The views of Adnan Pachachi; his appointment as Minister for Prime Ministerial Affairs; and the Saudi representative in Dubai's warning that some advisors in the UAE are Baathists and communists
• Saudi attitudes to developments in the Gulf
• Plans to send two delegations to foreign capitals to explain the UAE proposals; one delegation including the Abu Dhabi Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Bin Mubarak and Ahmad Al Suwaidi due to visit Taif, Tehran, Baghdad, Cairo, London, Washington, DC and New York; another delegation with Hamid Bin Hamad and Ahmad Sulayim, heading to Muscat, Bahrain, Kuwait, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan
• A regional visit planned for Sir W H T Luce and the reaction of Egypt and Iran
• Iran's view that the Gulf islands dispute should be settled before union
• The Moroccan ambassador’s criticism of an article in the organ of the Iran Novin Party [Hezb-e Iran-e Novin]
• P E Ramsbotham's talks with Abbas Ali Khalatbari on the Kuwait foreign minister's visit; and his planned talks with the Shah
• UAE defence plans and the need to explain them to the Iranians
• A history of the union negotiations, with a timeline, prepared by P R H Wright for the Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home
• Saudi encouragement for Ras Al Khaimah to join the UAE
• Articles in the Kuwait magazine Al Balagh and in Pravda of a reported UK defence treaty with Ras Al Khaimah
• A newspaper letter by D E G Neild defending actions of the Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah
• UAE plans for UN and Arab League membership
• Qatari plans for independence and UN membership
• The Deputy Ruler of Bahrain Sheikh Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa's impatience with delays in declaring independence
• The concerns of Mr Pannocchia of the Italian Embassy over union and an Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (ENI) oil concession in Saudi Arabia.