It was presented by Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, at a ceremony in Abu Dhabi on 29 March.
The UAE Central Bank and Abu Dhabi-based banks bought the largest shares.
But the company is determined to push into the Middle East: 22 locations in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the UAE, Dubai and Abu Dhabi starting in late 2013.
In Abu Dhabi, a UAE source informed about the attack plot said there was "no UAE citizen" with the name Raed Jaser.
The duo and the rest of Mali's squad are training in Abu Dhabi in the UAE ahead of the tournament which kicks off in Ghana on 20 January.
Kuwait and Abu Dhabi (in the UAE) operate two of the world's largest government-owned investment funds.
Etihad, an airline based in Abu Dhabi, the richest of the UAE's seven statelets, started flights to Baghdad in April.
In the short run, the much richer and more conservative state of Abu Dhabi, with 90% of the UAE's oil reserves, will bail out its miscreant, extravagant neighbour, along with the other five, poorer statelets if they need help too.
Al Marri, who is a filmmaker himself and has worked with the Abu Dhabi Film Festival as a content producer, says UAE filmmakers should also be looking towards creating movies on an international level rather than solely targeting a local audience.
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They guessed that Dubai's neighbour, Abu Dhabi, the wealthiest member of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), with over 90% of its oil, could not let its troubled cousin fail.
French President Francois Hollande is thought to have tried to encourage Abu Dhabi to give Total a share in the project when he visited the UAE in January.
Abu Dhabi Media, the company which financed Promised Land, is wholly-owned by the UAE government, which in turn, ranks seventh worldwide in proven natural gas reserves.
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