Canadians to need visa for UAE: embassy

Canadians will need a visa to enter the UAE starting on January 2, the UAE embassy in Ottawa announces.

Sami Dia, an evacuee from Lebanon, displays his passport as Canadian passport holders fleeing the conflict in Lebanon arrive at the port of Mersin in Turkey's Mediterranean coastal city July 21, 2006.
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Canadians will need a visa to enter the UAE starting on January 2, the UAE embassy in Ottawa has announced.

Requirements for the visas were not immediately announced.

"All sovereign states have the right to decide the entry requirements for visitors to their countries," Canadian foreign minister Lawrence Cannon's spokesman Jacques Labrie said by email.