Arabic News Weekly Edition for United Arab Emirates, 3/1/1999
Weekly Edition, United Arab Emirates - Week of March 1, 1999
- UAE president confers with French foreign minister
United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Rashid Abdullah al-Nuemi held talks in Abu Dhabi with French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine, who began a formal visit to the UAE yesterday evening. United Arab Emirates-France, Politics, 3/6/1999 - UAE' s crown prince arrives in Amman Jordan-United Arab Emirates, Politics, 3/6/1999
- First cable television network in United Arab Emirates
The Emirates Telecommunications Company (Etisalat) is getting ready to establish the first cable television network in the United Arab Emirates before the end of current year, the first in the Gulf area. United Arab Emirates, Business, 3/5/1999 - UAE pays its share in the council of economic unity Regional-United Arab Emirates, Economics, 3/5/1999
- UAE postpones GCC emergency meeting until today
The United Arab Emirates has postponed the emergency meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council states, convening to discuss Iranian military exercises near three islands which are under dispute, until today after having been scheduled for Wednesday. United Arab Emirates-Iran, Politics, 3/4/1999 - Iran regrets Arab League statements over Gulf islands
Iran has expressed regret over the recent statement released by the Arab League which criticized Iranian military maneuvers underway in the waters of the Arab Gulf and its assertion of control and sovereignty of the United Arab Emirates on the three islands of Greater Tanb, Lesser Tanb and Abu Mousa. United Arab Emirates-Iran, Politics, 3/2/1999 - UAE hands over a memorandum of protest to the Arab League against Iran
The United Arab Emirates on Monday submitted a second memorandum of protest in which it accused Iran of threatening the security of the Gulf and perpetuating its occupation of the three UAE islands of Greater Tanb, Lesser Tanb and Abu Mousa. United Arab Emirates-Iran, Politics, 3/2/1999 - A message from Algerian president to UAE Algeria-United Arab Emirates, Politics, 3/2/1999
- Dubai Shopping Festival celebrates the third millenium
The administration of the fourth session of the Dubai Shopping Festival decided to celebrate the end of the 20th century during its session that is held in the period from March 18 to April 17 under the slogan of "The family first," in order to concentrate on the role of family values at the end of the century. United Arab Emirates, Economics, 3/2/1999 - Emirate protests over Iranian measures in the occupied Islands Regional-United Arab Emirates, Politics, 3/2/1999
- Iranian maneuvers near Abu Mousa island
Iranian naval forces began military training exercises in the waters of the gulf near Abu Mousa, an island whose sovereignty is the subject of a dispute between Iran and the United Arab Emirates, along with two other Gulf islands. United Arab Emirates-Iran, Politics, 3/1/1999 - Iran regrets GCC statement over UAE islands
Iran has expressed its regret over statements made by the secretary general of the Gulf Cooperation Council and the Kuwaiti foreign minister in which they voiced their support for the protest expressed by the United Arab Emirates over Iran's opening of a municipality council on Abu Mousa island, which is under conflict between the UAE and Iran. United Arab Emirates-Iran, Politics, 3/1/1999