Goal of monetary union 'still realistic'

KUWAIT CITY— The UAE central bank governor Sultan Nasser Al Suweidi said yesterday he was committed to maintaining a peg to the dollar after Kuwait threw Gulf Arab monetary union plans into disarray by abandoning its dollar peg. “We are committed to a decision by Gulf leaders to keep currencies pegged to the dollar at a fixed rate,” Suweidi told reporters in Kuwait.

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Published: Wed 23 May 2007, 8:38 AM

Last updated: Sat 4 Apr 2015, 8:37 PM

He said the goal of monetary union was still realistic.

The central bank governor added that imported inflation was only a small part of price pressures in the country.

"Imported inflation represents a very small part in comparison with homegrown inflation, which comes from rents." "Rents are a temporary market situation, which is corrected by supply. It is a supply-demand situation," Suweidi said.


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