2022 in the United Arab Emirates

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Events in the year 2022 in the United Arab Emirates .

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Incumbents

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His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, at Hyderabad House, in New Delhi on February 11, 2016.jpg President of the United Arab Emirates Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.jpg Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Events

Ongoing: COVID-19 pandemic in the United Arab Emirates

January

February

March

May

June

July

August

Deaths

31 March – Easa Saleh Al Gurg, businessman and diplomat. [21]

13 May – Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, president (born 1948) [22]

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