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UAE, India to renegotiate bilateral air service pact

New Delhi / WAM The UAE Ambassador to India, Dr Ahmed Abdulrahman Al Banna, has met with India’s new Minister for Civil Aviation, Hardeep Singh Puri, and discussed pressing issues relating to cooperation between the two countries in civil aviation. This was the first face-to-face interaction from the UAE side with a member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Council of ...

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UAE keen on developing, ties cooperation with Bulgaria

Sofia / WAM Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Boyko Borissov met His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. During the meeting which came as part of Sheikh Abdullah’s state visit to Bulgaria, Borissov and Sheikh Abdullah discussed bilateral relations between the UAE and Bulgaria and ways to enhance them in a number of ...

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UAE, Cyprus discuss means to enhance trade, economic ties

LUXEMBOURG / WAM Obaid bin Humaid Al Tayer, Minister of State for Financial Affairs, met his counterpart Harris Georgiades, Minister of Finance of Cyprus, to discuss ways of enhancing cooperation between the two friendly countries, which extends for more than 50 years. The meeting was held during a visit by a UAE Ministry of Finance (MoF), delegation to Luxembourg. During ...

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Abdullah: We must secure our peoples and our economies

Sofia / WAM Actors that seek to destabilise the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) with their backwards, extremist stances, impede the region’s ultimate development goals, said HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. “We depend on friendly nations, like that of Bulgaria, to confront with us the fascist regimes that seek to ...

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‘Opening UAE embassy in Bulgaria a step forward in bolstering relations’

Sofia / WAM The Bulgarian Foreign Minister hailed the opening of the UAE embassy in Bulgaria as a step forward toward further bolstering trade, economic, and investment relations between the two countries. In statements to the Emirates News Agency (WAM), on the sidelines of the Sixth News Agencies World Congress in the Bulgarian capital Sophia, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of ...

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Etihad Airways celebrates 15 years of service to Germany

Abu Dhabi / WAM As the UAE and Germany intensify bilateral cooperation following the visit of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, to Germany this week, Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE, is celebrating 15 years of service to Germany. The airline ...

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Jafza to offer long term visa services to customers

Dubai / WAM Jebel Ali Free Zone (Jafza), has announced its offering facilities to obtain long term visas for its customers in a bid to attract and retain high calibre talent within the UAE. The move is in line with Resolution No. 56 of 2018, passed by the UAE Cabinet and issued as a decree by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed ...

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UAE condemns attack

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE has strongly condemned the Houthi terrorist attack against Saudi Arabia’s Abha International Airport, which resulted in the injury of many civilians. In a statement, the MOFAIC said UAE strongly condemned this terrorist act which utilised military projectile capabilities, and deemed it as new evidence of the Houthi’s hostile and terrorist tendencies that seek to ...

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Hub71, MIT Enterprise Forum Pan Arab partner to support Mena-based startups

ABU DHABI / WAM Hub71, a global tech hub driven by Mubadala Investment Company in collaboration with Microsoft, SoftBank Vision Fund and Abu Dhabi Global Market, has announced a new partnership with MIT Enterprise Forum Pan Arab, part of a global network of chapters dedicated to promoting and enriching the entrepreneurship ecosystem in the Arab region. With the joint mission ...

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TBHF pledges $216,000 to support Sinjar Action Fund

Sharjah / Emirates Business The Big Heart Foundation (TBHF) signed an agreement with Nadia’s Initiative, founded by Nadia Murad, co-recipient of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, to support the Initiative’s global advocacy efforts to rebuild Sinjar and enable the safe return of internally displaced Yazidis back to their homes. The UAE-based global humanitarian charity has pledged a $216,000 financial grant ...

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