Arabic News Weekly Edition for United Arab Emirates, 2/1/1999
Weekly Edition, United Arab Emirates - Week of February 1, 1999
- UAE minister: Toppling the government in Iraq would lead to partition
The United Arab Emirates' defense minister, who is also Dubai's crown prince, Sheikh Muhammad Bin Rashid al-Maktoum, has warned that any change from abroad of the Iraqi government would lead to a civil war and to the partition of Iraq. United Arab Emirates, Politics, 2/4/1999 - Dubai shopping festival on time
Dubai announced that the Dubai Shopping Festival will be held from March 18 - April 14. United Arab Emirates, Economics, 2/4/1999 - UAE-French joint military exercises
The joint military exercise "Gulf Watch" started on Wednesday in Abu Dhabi between the air forces of the United Arab Emirates and France. An official source in the UAE said this military exercise comes as a reflection of solid relations linking the two countries United Arab Emirates-France, Military, 2/4/1999 - Bomb defused in Dubai supermarket
A statement released on Tuesday in Dubai by the US embassy there said that a bomb was defused last week in a supermarket in Dubai usually frequented by the Americans and the European communities. United Arab Emirates-USA, Local, 2/3/1999 - UAE official meets with US undersecretary of state United Arab Emirates-USA, Politics, 2/3/1999
- UAE Deputy Premier calls for finding an Arab solution to the Iraqi problem
United Arab Emirates Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Sultan Bin Zayed al-Nahyan on Sunday in Abu Dhabi asserted the need for Arab and international moves to lift the sufferings of the Iraqi people as a result of the imposed embargo. United Arab Emirates-UK, Politics, 2/1/1999