Spain pledged its continued support for Arab rights during the official UAE-Spanish talks which started in Abu Dhabi between President His Highness Shaikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan and King Juan Carlos of Spain who is on a three-day official visit. The two leaders held a closed session of discussions at Al Mushrif palace and Rashid Abdullah, UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, said that they reviewed and evaluated the current Arab and international issues and bilateral relations between the two friendly countries. Talks also started between the two sides on lesser levels. Rashid Abdullah said the two delegations discussed Arab issues and recent developments in the Middle East, and the Spanish side was briefed on the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) set up in Abu Dhabi. The step was lauded by the Spanish side. The meeting also dealt with the situation in the Middle East and international and European developments in general.
Other important events:
1907 Frontier between Uganda and East Africa is defined.
1916 Bucharest, capital of Romania, falls to German troops.
1917 Collision between Belgian and French ammunition ships at Halifax, Canada, takes 1,600 lives.
1921 Britain signs peace treaty with Ireland establishing Irish Free State and Ireland accepts Dominion status.
1923 A presidential address is broadcast on radio for the first time as US President Calvin Coolidge speaks to a joint session of Congress.
1938 France and Germany sign pact on inviolability of their frontier.
1956 B. R. Ambedkar (Babasaheb), Indian politician, social reformer and equal rights campaigner, dies.
1957 America’s first attempt at putting a satellite into orbit blows up on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1961 Heavy fighting erupts in Congo’s Katanga Province between United Nations and Katanga forces.
1973 Gerald Ford becomes Vice-President of the US following Spiro Agnew’s resignation.
1983 The first heart and lung transplant in Britain is performed at Harefield Hospital, London by renowned surgeon Magdi Yacoub.
1989 Gunman kills 14 women at University of Montreal before killing himself.
1990 Iraqi President Saddam Hussain orders the release of all foreign hostages.
1991 Stjepan Mesic, President of Yugloslavia, resigns.
1992 Thousands of Hindus storms and destroy an ancient mosque in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh.
1994 Torrential rains swept southern Europe over the weekend, killing 32 people.
1997 A Russian military transport plane crashes into a residential area of Irkutsk in eastern Siberia, killing around 150 people.
1998 Hugo Chavez is elected president of Venezuela.
2004 Armed men set off explosives and shoot their way into the heavily guarded US consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
2005 Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh resigns over oil-for-food scam.
2006 Joseph Kabila is sworn in as Congo’s first democratically elected president.
2007 A land mine explosion tears through a passenger bus crowded with civilians in northern Sri Lanka, killing at least 16 people.
2011 A suicide bomber strikes a crowd of worshippers at a mosque in Kabul, killing at least 55 people.
2014 Britain signs agreement to open a permanent naval base in Bahrain.
2015 Yemen’s southern Aden province Governor Jaafar Mohammad Sa’ad is killed in a bomb blast along with his six bodyguards.
