GCC, Yemen Foreign Ministers to meet in Sana'a

SANA'A, March 12 (Saba) - Foreign
Ministers of Yemen and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) States are to hold their 6th
periodic
meeting and the 2nd in Sana'a next on Tuesday, foreign minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi
said on Thursday.
In the presence of GCC Secretary General Abdul Rahman al-Attiyah, the meeting aims
to exchange views between Yemen and GCC states on the course of the bilateral
relations
and the coordination in Arab and regional issues of common concerns, topped by the
preparations for Arab summit to be held late in March in Libya, al-Qirbi told the
weekly
26 September.
He said that the meetings will address the development and the current challenges
in Yemen in the light of outcomes of the London and Riyadh meetings and the
arrangements
for meeting of Yemen's friends and the gulf role to assist Yemen to face the
security and development challenges.
The meeting will review two reports from the GCC Secretariat General and the
Planning and International Cooperation Ministry about the joint cooperation and the
steps carried
out in the financial pledges vowed by the Gulf States' in London donor conference 2006.
The first meeting of Yemen and GCC States Foreign Ministers held in Sana'a in 2006
before London donor conference.
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