France–United Arab Emirates relations

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France–United Arab Emirates relations

France	United Arab Emirates

France–United Arab Emirates relations are the foreign relations between France and the United Arab Emirates.

History[]

Militarily, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and France negotiated a defence cooperation agreement to diversify the UAE's procurement of weaponry, in addition to a significant military relationship with the United States; France is one of the country's primary providers of military matériel.^[1]

Culturally, as of 2008 the Sorbonne university and Louvre museum were both establishing extensions in the UAE,^[2] and there was a plan to recreate a miniature Lyon city in Dubai complete with public squares, restaurants and museums.^[3]

On May 25, 2009, French president Nicolas Sarkozy visited Abu Dhabi, UAE, where he and the UAE's president Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan formally opened a French military base, France's first permanent base in the Persian Gulf, with up to 500 French troops.^[4] Sarkozy also visited the site of a Louvre Museum branch which France is opening in the United Arab Emirates. Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, said that co-operation with France was a top priority of UAE foreign policy.^[5]

Resident diplomatic missions[]

• France has an embassy in Abu Dhabi and a consulate-general in Dubai.
• United Arab Emirates has an embassy in Paris.

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  Embassy of the United Arab Emirates in Paris

See also[]

• French people in the United Arab Emirates

References[]