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Now playing Next United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates will offer citizenship to some foreign nationals Sheikh Mohammed wrote on Twitter that hereditary rulers in the country's seven emirates and at the federal level would nominate those for citizenship. 30/01/2021
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