ABU DHABI: Eleven Arab states including Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Morocco on Tuesday signed on to the first regional team to cooperate on a space programme, the UAE said.
“Today at the Global Space Congress in Abu Dhabi, we attended the signing of a charter to establish the first Arab body for space cooperation, bringing together 11 Arab states,” said Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum in comments carried by the government media office.
The pan-Arab team’s first project is “a satellite that Arab scientists will work on from here in the UAE”, he said.
Published in Dawn, March 20th, 2019
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