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The Official Opening of the DAAD Information Centre in Abu Dhabi - May 22, 2006:

Under the Patronage of H.H. Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, and H.E. Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, German Federal Foreign Minister,  an Opening Ceremony of the joint office of the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), the Goethe-Institute and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), was held.

About United Arab Emirates - Germany Relationship:

Germany has maintained diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) since 1972 and is accorded privileged partner status; Former Federal Chancellor Schroeder and the Deputy Prime Minister of the UAE Sheikh Hamdan Bin Zayed Al Nathan agreed on a strategic partnership in April 2004. Beyond the economic ties and the extensive trade relations, both governments have expressed their intention to step up relations in the political sphere as well. Two visits by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in two years and numerous ministerial visits have fostered a favourable climate for close cooperation. Relations are friendly.

The UAE is Germany's leading economic partner in the Arab world. German exports amounting to EUR 3.55 billion (+9.8%) made 2004 another successful year. Foreign trade with the UAE has evidently been held back little by the strong euro and is up with the trend in total German exports. For German foreign trade, the UAE (position 36 in the export statistics) is roughly as important as Hong Kong or Singapore.

About 500 German companies operate in the UAE, about 150 of these in Abu Dhabi and some 250 in Dubai and the Northern Emirates. German businesses have joined to form the German Business Councils Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

Germany and the UAE have signed air transport and double taxation accords as well as an agreement on promoting and protecting investments.

All three pillars of export trade promotion are in place: in Dubai, the Delegate of German Industry and Commerce (branch office in Abu Dhabi), the correspondent of the German Office of Foreign Trade (BfAI) and the German Consulate General – all at the same premises – and in Abu Dhabi the German Embassy.

Stepping up cultural relations is another objective of the strategic partnership. Germany has a very good reputation in training, particularly medicine and the engineering sciences. Agreement has already been reached on exchanging more students and German cooperation in setting up facilities for vocational and technical education. The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Goethe Institute want to increase their local presence in the UAE in future.