The United States and the United Arab Emirates(UAE) agreed to strengthen civil and national security space collaboration after officials from the two countries met in Washington last week, the US State Department said.
The Department's spokesman, Jeff Rathke, said in a statement on Friday that the officials reviewed a broad list of potential areas of space cooperation and agreed on developing a strategic approach to elaborate space systems on which they would rely for economic, environmental, security, and social well-being.
"Initial discussions focused on space policy and regulatory developments, space security, bilateral space science cooperation, weather monitoring and the use of satellite-based applications" he added.