UAE | Health
Cabinet approves procedures to monitor imported medicines
His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on Tuesday chaired a cabinet meeting.
- WAM
- Published: 00:11 June 4, 2008
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- Shaikh Mohammad chaired a cabinet meeting on Tuesday and the budgets of a number of federal authorities and establishments for 2008 were approved.
Abu Dhabi: His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on Tuesday chaired a cabinet meeting.
The cabinet approved procedures for monitoring medicines and pharmaceutical preparations imported through the exit points of GCC countries, as well as the organisational regulations of private education.
The budgets of a number of federal authorities and establishments for 2008 were approved, as well as the Islamic Conference League, which was endorsed by the 11th Islamic Summit held in Dakar in March.
The cabinet also approved the agreement signed in Geneva, which bans or limits the use of certain conventional weapons that may be considered excessively harmful or have random effects.
Other agreements approved by the cabinet include a tourism cooperation agreement with Uzbekistan and a security cooperation agreement with China, as well as other decisions and federal draft laws.
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