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UAE to hold first limited elections |
2005-12-02 |
![]() The speech, carried on state news agency WAM, gave no date for the election to the council, whose 40 members are currently all appointed by the seven semi-autonomous emirates that make up the UAE. UAE citizens are a small minority in the oil producing region, which has a population of 4 million. Although there is no political dissent or Islamist violence in the UAE, it is the only country without elected bodies in the mainly conservative Gulf region after Saudi Arabia held municipal elections this year. |
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