ABU DHABI / WAM Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, Minister of Economy, will chair the UAE’s delegation to the UAE-Japan’s Strategic Business Forum, which will be held in Tokyo on March 6 and 7. Abdullah Al Saleh, Under-Secretary for Foreign Trade at the ministry, said the meeting falls within the context of UAE’s efforts to increase its presence in global ...

DUBAI / WAM The Federal Tax Authority (FTA) has clarified the criteria that determine whether it is the supplier or end-consumer that bears the cost of the VAT on goods and services set to be delivered fully or partially in 2018, but had been contracted before the implementation of VAT. In a statement, the Federal Tax Authority clarified that according ...

GENEVA / WAM The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has joined a chorus of international actors in calling for respecting a truce in Syria’s eastern Ghouta and affirmed that the Syrian people had experienced brutal confrontations and systematic targeting and could not tolerate another bloody chapter. Obaid Salem Al Zaabi, Permanent Representative of the UAE to United Nations and other International ...