The Ambassador from the United Kingdom to the United Arab Emirates is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in the United Arab Emirates, and in charge of the UK's diplomatic mission in the UAE. The official title is Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates. This page is about negotiations; for the board game, see Diplomacy (game). ... Seal on the building of German Embassies. ...

Before the UAE was granted independence from the United Kingdom, in 1971, each of the Trucial States was home to its own political deputation from the United Kingdom, complete with its own Political Officer or Political Agent heading the deputation. Of these deputations and political representatives, the oldest, and by far the most important, was to the Emir of Abu Dhabi, which was based in the city of Abu Dhabi, now the capital city of the UAE and the site of the modern British embassy. 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... UAE redirects here; for other uses of that term, see UAE (disambiguation) The United Arab Emirates is an oil-rich country situated in the south-east of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia, comprising seven emirates: Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah and Umm al-Quwain. ... Abu Dhabi or Abu Zaby (Arabic language: أبوظبي) is the largest of the seven emirates that comprise the United Arab Emirates and was also the largest of the former Trucial States. ... A diplomatic mission is a group of people from one nation state present in another nation state to represent the sending state in the receiving State. ...

List of Heads of Mission

Political Officers in Abu Dhabi

• Martin Buckmaster (1955 – 1958)
• Edric Worsnop (1958 – 1959)
• Edward Firth Henderson (1959 – 1961)

Political Agents in Abu Dhabi

• Sir Hugh Boustead (1961 – 1965)
• Albert Lamb (1965 – 1968)
• James Treadwell (1968 – 1971)

Ambassadors to the United Arab Emirates

• James Treadwell (1971 – 1973)
• D McCarthy (1973 – 1977)
• Sir David Roberts (1977 – 1981)
• Sir Harold Walker (1981 – 1986)
• M Tait (1986 – 1989)
• Sir Graham Burton (1990 – 1994)
• Anthony Harris (1994 – 1998)
• Patrick Nixon (1998 – 2003)
• Richard Makepeace (2003 – )

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