By Kevin McCauley
The U.S. Emirates Alliance paid The Harbour Group $956K in PR fees for the six-month period ended Sept. 30 for activities from contacting U.S. officials about stability/humanitarian development in Pakistan and Afghanistan to promoting the opening of a soccer pitch atop an elementary public school in New York City.
On the Af/Pak front, Harbour arranged meetings with Dan Feldman, State Dept's special representative to those countries, along with his deputies Vikram Singh and Jarrett Blanc.
D.C.-based Harbour briefed State Dept.'s United Arab Emirates desk officer Bridget McGovern about the visit of the Manchester City Football Club to the U.S. and then worked with the principal and a teacher at the Lexington Academy in Manhattan's Spanish Harlem.
The UAE Embassy and Manchester City, which is owned by Abu Dhabi royal Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, donated the lighted synthetic field, the first in Manhattan, as part of the UAE's community soccer initiative. It's designed to forge closer grassroots ties in the U.S.
Harbour also contacted Attorney General Eric Holder about U.S./UAE legal cooperation and staffers at both the American Jewish Committee and Anti-Defamation League about the UAE's threat to ban BlackBerry smartphone service.
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