New Delhi, 3 January 1975 , The Government of the Republic of INDIA
AND
The Government of the UNITED ARAB EMIRATES,
INSPIRED BY a common desire to establish and develop closer cultural relations and
DESIROUS OF promoting and developing in every possible manner the relations and understanding between India and U.A.E. in the realms
of art, culture, education, including academic activity in the fields of science and technology, sports, public health and mass
media of information and education,
HAVE AGREED to conclude the following Agreement :
Article 1
The Contracting Parties shall facilitate and encourage cooperation in the fields of art and culture, education, science and technology,
public health, mass media of information and education, sports and games and journalism in order to contribute towards a better knowledge
of their respective cultures and activities in these fields.
Article 2
The Contracting Parties shall encourage and facilitate :
(a) reciprocal visits of professors and experts for delivering lectures, study tours and conducting special courses;
(b) reciprocal visits of representatives of educational, literary, scientific, technical artistic, sports and journalists’ associations
and organisations and participation in congresses, conferences, symposia and seminars;
(c) exchange of materials in the fields of culture, science, education, sports, translation and exchange of books, periodicals
and other educational, scientific, technical cultural and sports publications, and wherever possible, exchange of art specimen;
and
(d) reciprocal facilities in regard to visits by archaeologists of one country to the other to enable them to gain experience
of excavation as well as preservation and display or archaeological finds, and for training purposes, and also in regard to
exchange of specimens or casts.
Article 3
Each Contracting Party shall endeavour to provide facilities and scholarships to students and scientific personnel of the other country
seeking to study in its institutions of higher education and research laboratories.
Article 4
Each Contracting Party undertakes to examine the conditions under which the diplomas, certificates and university degrees awarded
in the other country can be recognised for purposes of study in its own educational and other institutions.
Article 5
Each Contracting Party shall endeavour to present different facts of the life and culture of the other Party through the media of
radio, television and press. With this end in view, the two Parties shall exchange suitable materials and programmes.
Article 6
The Contracting Parties shall facilitate and promote :
(a) exchange of artistes, and dance and music ensembles ;
(b) exchange of art and other exhibitions;
(c) exchange of films, documentaries, radio and television programme recordings and recordings on discs and tapes; and
(d) exchange of experts in the field of cinematography and
participation in each other’s International Film Festivals.
Article 7
The Contracting Parties shall encourage visits of sports teams between the two countries and shall facilitate subject to the national
laws and regulations in force, their stay and movements in their respective territories.
Article 8
The Contracting Parties shall, to the extent possible, ensure that text-books prescribed for their educational institutions, particularly
those relating to History and Geography, do not contain any error or misrepresentation of facts about each other’s country.
Article 9
Each Contracting Party shall welcome the establishment in its ‘s territory of cultural institutes or friendship associations devoted
to educational and cultural pursuits by the other Contracting Party, or the Contacting Parties jointly, in accordance with its
laws, regulations and general policy in this regard; it being understood that prior clearance of the Government concerned would
be obtained before any institution is established under this Article.
Article 10
For the fulfilment of the objectives of the present Agreement, a Joint Committee may be established by the Contracting Parties as
and when considered necessary, consisting of an equal number of representatives of the two Governments, which shall meet as agreed
upon between the Contracting Parties at the request of either of them, alternately in New Delhi and Abu Dhabi.
The Joint Committee will be responsible for reviewing periodically the working of the present Agreement, advising the Government
concerned in formulating and recommending any items of interest to either Party in the fields envisaged in the present Agreement,
as also advising the manner in which the working of the Agreement may be improved upon.
Article 11
The present Agreement shall be subject to ratification by the Contracting Parties in accordance with the procedural requirements of
their respective Constitutions and shall come into force on the date of the exchange of the Instruments of Ratification. It shall
remain in force for a period of five years and shall be renewed automatically thereafter for a further period of five years, until
either Contracting Party gives to the other a six months prior written notice of its intention to terminate the present Agreement.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the duly authorised representatives of the Contracting Parties have signed the present Agreement and have affixed
their seals thereto.
DONE at New Delhi this thirteenth day of Pausa, 1896 (Saka) corresponding to the third day of January, 1975 (A.D.) in six originals,
two each in Hindi, Arabic and English languages, all the texts being equally authentic except that in case of doubt when the English
text shall prevail.
Sd/-
S. NURUL HASAN
Minister of Education, Social Welfare
and Culture
Government of India
Sd/-
AHMED KHALIFA-AL-SUWAIDI
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Government of UAE
