<P> The launch of the UAE began with the consensus of the rulers of the emirates of Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Fujairah, and Umm al - Quwain on the 2nd of December 1971 and their agreement to unite . The approved interim constitution regulated the state and determined its goals . On the tenth of February 1972, it was announced that the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah was joining the Union to complete the seven Emirates held in a single entity . </P> <P> In 1968, Britain declared its willingness to withdraw from all protectorates and colonies of the Eastern Mediterranean, the idea of the Union begun to crystallize at a meeting between Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan and Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, in the village of Samih border on February 18, 1968 (1) and they agreed that the best way is the union between them and invite the Gulf emirates to this union . The UAE does not celebrate any independence day represented by the British declaration of withdrawing from the area in 1968, it celebrates a union day that happened three years after on the 2nd of December 1971 . </P> <P> Emirates federal constitution approved in principle on the evening of December 1, 1971 . The next morning, on December 2, 1971, met seven emirates rulers in the hostel in Dubai . And it approved four of the rulers of the Emirates Post Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the Union while RAK Ruler did not agree at the time . Signed Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Fujairah, Umm Al Quwain and the rulers of Ajman on donors legitimate constitution for the Union, including independence from Britain . (4) Ahmed Khalifa Al Suwaidi went out - Sheikh Zayed adviser, was appointed a foreign minister in the first cabinet formation of the state - to announce to the media for the Union . And raising the flag of the State in a hostel in Dubai, which is known today as the "House of the Union". (5) (6) and Sheikh Zayed was elected president of the union, and Sheikh Rashid as Vice President of the UAE . </P> <P> UAE National Day stands for UAE Union Day, the anniversary of the union between the six emirates on the 2nd of December 1971, not an Independence Day commemorating the British withdrawal from the area in 1968 . </P>

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