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UAE - Pax Americana Is Changing - Part 19C - Dubai & The Other Emirates.
December 26, 2005... Dubai is a booming emirate, though not as wealthy as the emirate of Abu Dhabi which is the richest entity in the Arab Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) area. The other five UAE emirates are less wealthy than Dubai. Yet seven members now are...
UAE - GCC Rulers' Meeting & Iran Nuclear Issue.(Gulf Cooperation Council )
December 26, 2005... The GCC's latest annual summit meeting was held in Abu Dhabi on Dec. 18-19. It was attended by five of its six member-rulers and Kuwait's Prime Minister Shaikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah - the latter's elder brother, the Emir Shaikh Jabir, being...
UAE - The Dubai Decision Makers.
December 26, 2005... Decision making in Dubai is fairly simple. Those in charge of the petroleum sector are a handful of men controlled by the emirate's strongman, Shaikh Muhammad bin Rashid al-Maktoum, who holds several positions apart from his being the local...
UAE - Shaikh Hamdan bin Rashid al-Maktoum.(Biography)
December 26, 2005... UAE Minister of Finance and Industry, Shaikh Hamdan is the second son of the late Shaikh Rashid. He has held this portfolio since the mid-1970s. He heads the Dubai Municipal Council, a post he also has held since the 1970s. The council acts as...
UAE - Sharjah's Decision Makers.
December 26, 2005... Like Dubai and the other members of the UAE, the emirate of Sharjah has kept its petroleum sector independent from the federal system. There are no restrictions on oil and gas output levels in Sharjah, with the operators always urged to...
UAE - Shaikh Sultan bin Muhammad al-Qassimi.(Biography)
December 26, 2005... The ruler of Sharjah since January 1972, Shaikh Sultan is a pragmatist when it comes to business. He has turned his emirate into a business centre complementing that of Dubai. He is in alliance with Dubai's ruling Maktoum family. He lost his...