CAIRO: Sheilch Zayed Bin Sultan al-Nahyan, ruler of the five-year-old United Arab Emirates, is not renewing his term when it expires on December 2 because he finds he lacl(s the prerogative to control illegal immigration into the sheil(hdoms he rules. He told Cairo`s newspaper `Al-Ahram` in an interview ... that two other reasons compelled him not to accept a renomination appeal: the sale of UAE land to non-Arabs arriving into the country affording to pay highpricesforit,andthefactthatone single Emirate, Abu Dhabi, is bearing all the expenses ofthe Federation.

The Arab sheilch of the oil-rich Gulf state said that if Abu Dhabi has been able to afford paying since the creation of the union in 1971, `it cannot go on doing so for ever, especially because of its commitments to the Arab cause against Israel`. Both King Khaled of Saudi Arabia and President Anwar Sadat of Egypt have been calling on the Sheilch to reconsider his decision. Massive popular turnouts were converging on the Sheikh`s palace with the same request. ... The seriousness of the UAE vulnerability to ... illegal immigration was borne this weel( by reports that 1,400 foreigners tried to infiltrate by sea into ... Fujeira.