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US consulate will move to bigger space
After nearly 30 years of functioning out of Dubai's World Trade Centre, the US consulate is planning to relocate and join many diplomatic missions overlooking Dubai Creek, a senior US diplomat said Wednesday.
- By Jumana Al Tamimi, Associate Editor
- Published: 23:21 March 18, 2009
- Image Credit: Gulf News Archive
- After nearly 30 years of functioning out of Dubai’s Trade Center Tower (which is part of the World Trade Center complex), the US consulate is planning to relocate and join many diplomatic missions overlooking the Creek of Dubai, a senior US diplomat said on Wednesday.
Dubai: After nearly 30 years of functioning out of Dubai's Trade Center Tower (which is part of the World Trade Center complex), the US consulate is planning to relocate and join many diplomatic missions overlooking the Creek of Dubai, a senior US diplomat said on Wednesday.
“By early winter 2011,'' Paul Sutphin, Consul General of the United States of America in Dubai said, the “US consulate is expected to relocate after 28 years of operating'' out of the 39-floor square white landmark building of Dubai.
“The US$ 126 million dollar project'' of the new consulate is being built next to the Saudi and British consulates on the Creek in Bur Dubai, he said, adding that the move was necessitated by the “need to more space and dedicated facilities.''
He described Dubai as “a hub for transportations and shipping.''
Moreover, the new location will include offices of the US government agencies that have a regional activities and “pulse'', he said.
Sutphin's statements came on the sidelines of a luncheon reception held in Dubai on Wednesday for the US Ambassador to UAE Richard Olson by the American Business Council of Dubai and the Northern Emirates.
The US consulate receives daily scores of visa applicants from almost all nationalities working in Dubai. However, it is considered as “number 1'' consulate in the world, in issuing visas for Iranians seeking traveling to the US, Sutphin said.
Last year, it received 17,000 visa applicants out of 45,000 applicants, Sutphin said.
This explains adding Farsi to both Arabic and English writing on the signboards on the way leading to the consulate.
Diplomatic relations between Washington and Tehran were cut in the aftermath of the 1979 storming of the US Embassy in the Iranian capital and taking 52 employees there as hostages for 444 days.
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