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The Arab Emirates has extended its public diplomacy and communications program at The Harbour Group for another two years.
Fees and expenses for the effort are capped at $10M, making it one of the richest US PR campaigns bankrolled by a foreign government.
The extension kicked off Jan. 1.
THG will support the UAE’s DC embassy in the development of a communications program “to sustain and enhance public awareness and understanding of the UAE among US policymakers and opinion leaders.”
It also will support the PR of UAE consulates in New York, Boston, Houston and Los Angeles.
Richard Mintz, THG managing director and former PA global chair at Burson-Marsteller, handles the UAE business.
Saudi Arabia, a close ally of the UAE, also works with THG. Both nations are involved in military action in Yemen.
Saudi Arabia has an $80K per-month contract with THG for strategic communications counsel and support on general foreign policy matters and US-Saudi relations.
That one-year agreement began May 1, 2017.
Development Counsellors International has landed the Tourism Authority of Thailand as a tourism and business event destination account.
Former Georgia Republican Congressman Tom Graves is representing the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, positioning the country as a reliable partner with the US.
Bridges Partners is running an influencer campaign on behalf of Israel to promote the cultural interchange between it and the US.
San Diego’s Show Faith by Works is spreading pro-Israel messaging to Christian groups in the western US on behalf of the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
KNP Communications has lined up a contract to provide media training to members of Canada’s US embassy.
