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The United Arab Emirates (UAE): Issues for U.S. Policy The UAE’s open economy and society have won praise from advocates of expanded freedoms in the Middle East. However, some of those same policies have produced financial excesses, social ills such as prostitution and human trafficking, and relatively lax controls on sensitive technologies acquired from the West. These concerns—as well as concerns about the UAE oversight and management of a complex and technically advanced initiative such as a nuclear power program—underscore some congressional dissatisfaction with a U.S.-UAE civilian nuclear cooperation agreement.