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Notes to Chapter Nine

117 The Development Office was incorporated into several ministries.
118 See MEES, vol. XIV, no. 8. 18 December 1970.
119 Sec for instance the occasion in October 1969 when Ra’s al Khaimah
boycotted the last part of the Supreme Council meeting; see above, pages
343, 353 and footnote 79.
120 Gas was struck at 17,900 feet and high quality oil was found at 16,000
feet, according to The Times, 21 December 1971. See also for the
following MEES, vol. XV, nos. 3 and 8,12 November and 17 December
1971.
121 See Reuters Bulletin, 4 December 1971.
122 Although there was some speculation in 1979 that the new regime in
Iran would return the islands as a gesture of goodwill this possibility
seems to have faded quite soon.
123 A translation into English entitled Provisional Constitution of the
United Arab Emirates was published as a booklet by the United Arab
Emirates’ Ministry of Information in 1972. This version was used for the
study of the federal state’s constitutional basis. An early analysis of the
constitution was written by John Duke Anthony, "The Union of Arab
Amirates", in Middle East Journal, vol. 26. no. 3, pp. 271-87.
124 A case in point is for instance the once hotly disputed issue of the
individual Emirates’ membership in organisations such as OPEC and
OAPEC, which was permitted in Article 123 of the Provisional
Constitution.
125 Note the similarity to jumhurJyah al 'arablya al muttahidah (United
Arab Republic) which was the name chosen for the federation of Egypt
and Syria, when unification proceeded to the extent of having one
President and a central government consisting of fourteen Egyptian and
seven Syrian Ministers (1958-61).
126 Al ittiheid al jumhunyat al'arabJyah was the name of the much looser
federation between Egypt. Libya and Syria which was agreed upon in
1971 and ceased to function in 1977. although the agreement has not yet
been formally abrogated.
127 See also Heard-Bey, Frauke, "Der Prozess der Staatswerdung in
arabischen Olexportlandern. Politischer und gesellschaftlicher Wandel
in Bahrain, Qatar, den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten und Oman" in:
Vierteljahreshefte fur Zeitgeschichte, Heft 2, 1975, pp. 155-209, par­
ticularly pp. 178ff.
128 "The Union shall have exclusive legislative and executive jurisdiction in
the following affairs: 1. Foreign Affairs; 2. Defence and the Union
Armed Forces; 3. Protection of the Union’s security against internal or
external threat; 4. Matters pertaining to security, order and rule in the
permanent capital of the Union; 5. Matters relating to Union officials
and Union judiciary; 6. Union finance and Union taxes, duties and fees;
7. Union public loans; 8. Postal, telegraph, telephone and wireless
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