Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi, UAE Minister of Foreign Trade, has confirmed that bilateral trade between France and the UAE has been sustained even through the global crisis: "Although international trade has declined as a result of the global financial crisis, our non-oil bilateral trade during 2009 maintained its 2008 level of approximately EURO3.3 billion," she said. "This affirms the strong commercial ties that exist between our two countries and the ...