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Star, the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs had instructed their
missions to collect “whatever information they may come across” about
the Emirates and their Federation.
28 ARR, issue 7, 1-15 April 1968.
29 Participants in this meeting were national advisers and foreign Arab
legal experts working for the governments: On behalf of Abu Dhabi two
advisers, Dr Mahmud Hasan Juma’h and Salih Farah, took part; on
behalf of Qatar, Dr Hasan Kamil, 'Ali al Ansari, and ’Abdul Wahhab al
Nidani; on behalf of Dubai, Ahmad bin Sultan bin Sulayyim, Mahdi al
Tajir, and legal adviser to Shaikh Rashid, Ahmad al Bitar; on behalf of
Bahrain, Shaikh Muhammad bin Mubarak Al Khalifah, Yusuf al
Shlrawi, Sayyid Mahmud al’Alawi, and legal adviser Wash al Nimr; on
behalf of Sharjah, Muhammad bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Ibrahim al Midfa’,
’Abdullah bin 'Ali al Mahmud, the legal adviser Mukhtar al Turn, and
Tariam’ Umran; on behalf of Umm al Qaiwain, Rashid bin Hamad and
the adviser Burhan Shams al Din: on behalf of Ra’s al Khaimah. Shaikh
Khalid bin Saqr Al Qasimi: Fujairah authorised the delegation of Abu
Dhabi to speak on its behalf; (see Resolutions).
30 This meeting of advisers made it already clear that the five small
Emirates, particularly Ra’s al Khaimah, felt uneasy about being
relegated to a secondary role while the four larger Emirates seemed to be
preparing to implement whatever they agreed between themselves.
31 See also for the following. “Why is the establishment of the Union of
Arab Emirates being delayed" in Al Jaridah of Beirut on 18 June 1969.
(English translation in: Resolutions); see also ARR, issue 10,16-31 May
1968 and ARR, issue 11,1-15 June 1968 with a report from a Bahraini
journalist who blamed Qatar for the breakdown of the talks because
Qatar insisted that the issues of the presidency and the capital must be
discussed.
32 Professor Charles Rousseau from Paris University and Dr Wahid Ra’fat,
the Egyptian legal adviser to the Ruler of Kuwait.
33 For the text of the resolutions of this meeting see Federation of Arab
Emirates. A Report, published by the Department of Information and
Tourism, Research and Publication Section, Abu Dhabi, October 1970;
and ARR, issue 13,1-15 July 1968. It is interesting to note that physical
communications between the member stales themselves and also with
other Gulf states were still rather rudimentary at that time. The first
weekly air service between Kuwait and Bahrain only started on 1
January 1969 and the first telephone communication to Fujairah, by
VHF radio telephone from Dubai, was established in January 1969.
included Dr Hasan Kamil, the Egyptian legal adviser to the
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Government of Qatar; Salih Farah, a Sudanese judge in Abu Dhabi;
Wasfi al Nimr, legal adviser in Bahrain; and Ahmad al Bitar, a

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