* Your Excelency, how does UAE face the global economic crisis?
The visionary policies designed by our responsible leadership, taking full consideration of the very serious constraints posed by the current global economic crisis, have generated results in terms of development and modernization beyond the highest world rates of growth, placing the UAE in an area of excellence, among the leading countries in many sectors of economic endeavour, including tourism. The past year only confirmed that UAE are solidly anchored on an authentic path of renaissance in all walks of life and are becoming more and more a popular destination for businessmen and investors.
* What is the opinion of the UAE officials about the cooperation between the United Arab Emirates and Romania?
Besides our first priority to ensure a sustainable and fast-growing growth of the UAE economy, the UAE leadership, especially the President of the country, His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahiyan, and the Prime Minister, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, attaches great importance to the development of cooperation between UAE and Romania. In its overall frame, the UAE foreign trade policy is derived from the philosophy of economic openness to the world and positive interaction with trade partners. It is based on the principles of parity and mutual interests.
* How did the relation between Romania and the United Arab Emirates evolve in time?
In its pursuit to provide an attractive environment for investments, UAE has taken successful steps of ratifying several agreements to promote and protect investments and to avoid double-taxation with many countries, including Romania. UAE is a signatory to a set of economic and commercial cooperation agreements with many countries all over the world. Based on those agreements, we have set the legal frames of ec
