ABU DHABI- The United Arab Emirates (UAE) said on Sunday it had signed military deals worth 3.87 billion UAE dirhams ($1.1 billion) with international companies.

A spokesman for the IDEX defense conference said the UAE had also announced military deals worth 1.1 billion UAE dirhams with local companies.

($1 = 3.6726 UAE dirham)

(Reporting by Stanley Carvalho; Writing by Nafisa Eltahir; Editing by Mark Potter) ((Nafisa.Eltahir@thomsonreuters.com;))