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Chapter Nina
                  comprising Ihe seven Trucial Slates, had been agreed upon in July of
                   1971. On 1 September Qatar followed suit.05
                     Meanwhile Abu Dhabi, apprehensive of the outcome of the further
                   deliberations and realising that Dubai was hesitant to join a
                   federation without Qatar, prepared for the eventuality that the
                   federation would not lake shape before time ran out by announcing
                   on 1 July the formation of the first cabinet in its history.90 The
                   organisation of its governmental and administrative structure had
                   been in preparation for several months in the hands of local and
                   other Arab civil servants and outside advisers. The Ruler also set up
                   a National Consultative Assembly with fifty members. They were
                   representatives of Abu Dhabi's tribes and main tribal sub-sections
                   and of the most important merchant families in the town nominated
                   by Shaikh Zayid in consultation with the leading members of society.
                     One of the first acts of the new cabinet was to establish on 8 July
                   the Abu Dhabi Fund for Arab Economic Development with an initial
                   capital of 50 million Bahrain Dinars. The very generous assistance
                   which Abu Dhabi already gave to Arab, African and Islamic
                   countries was institutionalised in co-operation with a similar fund in
                   Kuwait and with the IMF. This timely gesture also demonstrated
                   once again that the Ruler of Abu Dhabi and the new government
                   really considered the wealth which this Slate derived from oil to be
                  an asset for the entire, formerly so desperately poor, coast and for the
                   needs of other countries. Shaikh Zayid remained determined that
                   Abu Dhabi should do its utmost to foster the Federation, but there
                   was still the uncertainty over which Emirates would join.



                  4 Agreement to establish the UAE

                  The UAE agreed upon
                  On 10 July the seven Rulers met in Dubai as members of the Trucial
                  States Council. The urgent task before them was to work out the
                  formula for the transfer of a number of functions which had hitherto
                  been performed by the British Government, such as jurisdiction  over
                  foreigners and control of immigration.97 While progressing through a
                  22-point agenda, measures were agreed for the co-ordination of
                  police activities and the unification of various duties by modifying
                  existing organisations of the Development Office.98
                    During  informal consultations of the Rulers and their aides

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