Volume I: National Reports 1976
H. M. Al-Baharna1
On 2 Dec. 1971, the Trucial States Council, composed of the Rulers of the seven Trucial States of Oman (Ahū Dhābī, Dhūbai, Shardja, Adjmān, Umm al-Kaiwain, Ra’s al-Khaima, Fudjaira) met and formally proclaimed the establishment of a new state known as the United Arab Emirates (Ittiḥād al imārāt al- ‘arabiyya).
The State of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is constituted of the same number of Emirates (Sheikhdoms) whi…