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12 January 2010

A draft United Arab Emirates federal law setting out procedures for dealing with major emergencies has been drawn up and is about to be submitted for approval, a senior official revealed yesterday

"We have finished the draft law and will refer it within days to official bodies in the country so it can be approved," Mohammed Khalfan Al Rumaithi, Director- General of the National Crisis and Emergency Management Authority (NCEMA), told Emirates Business.

Al Rumaithi said the draft contained clauses that defined crises and disasters, set out the duties of each government and non-government body and described ways of co-ordinating their responses.

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