UK/UAE Joint Committee: general

This file concerns matters about the UK-UAE Joint Committee, December 1976 to December 1977. It contains correspondence relating to:

• Conversation between D J McCarthy and UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Saif Ghobash
• Dispatch from McCarthy to Foreign Secretary Anthony Crosland about the second meeting of the Anglo-UAE Joint Committee led by the UK Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr David Owen, Sayyed Ghobash and UAE Ambassador to London Sayyed Mahdi Al Tajir
• Date, agenda items and provisional programme for the third UK-UAE Joint Committee meeting
• Draft of the speech by the Minister for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Frank Judd
• Briefings on the subjects of: the Natural Resources Institute, health cooperation, agriculture, UK public sector consultants, performance bonds and certification of documents
• Visit by a member of the Central Computing Agency to the UAE Ministry of Planning
• Postponement of the Joint Committee meeting due to the involvement of Tajir and Ahmad Khalifa Al Suwaidi in matters of the UAE Currency Board and the tensions between Egypt and Libya
• Resignation of the former Managing Director of the Currency Board of the UAE Ronald Scott and the enquiry into the management of the Board prior to Scott's resignation
• Speaking notes for the Minister of State for the Joint Meeting on 27 September 1977; steering and background briefs; and plans for meeting at the India Office Council Chamber
• Record of the Joint Committee meeting
• Plans for a possible visit by the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs to Abu Dhabi