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The UAE has clearly raised the bar across the region as a major global economic hub

Middle East trade with the U.S. has fallen by some 20-26 per cent since the events of September 11, a senior U.S. trade official told a Washington conference on U.S.-Arab relations.

One of America's foremost experts on the Gulf Cooperation Council states warned that the flurry of criticism aimed at Saudi Arabia in Washington policy circles over the past few months is "harmful, provocative and dangerous to long-term American interests."