Exclusive Agreement
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The Exclusive Agreement of 1892 was a treaty signed between the British and the Rulers of the Sheikhdoms of the Lower Gulf, then known as the Trucial States and today the United Arab Emirates.
The treaty bound the Rulers of the Trucial States to the British government, to deal only with the British and not to make any agreements regarding land or territorial rights with any foreign power. It effectively cemented the status of the Trucial States as a British protectorate, although did not formally confer protectorate status on the Sheikhdoms, a status the British were to withhold until they announced the unilateral abrogation of all of the treaties they entered into with the Trucial States on 16 January 1968.
The revocation of all of these treaties formally took place on the 1st December 1971, the day before the accession to the act of Union which would mark the foundation of the United Arab Emirates.