Gulf summit and the internal agenda
Gulf, Politics, 12/19/2005

The the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) 26th ordinary summit which was opened in Abu Dhabi on Sunday will consider several internal issues, especially extending work in the interim phase of the Customs Union and the electricity and water grid projects among the member states and the timetable program for the monetary Union.

The agenda also includes completing all basics needed for the GCC common market which will be inaugurated by the end of 2007, the monetary union in 2010, and the railway network in addition to considering the report over GCC inter military and security cooperation.

In their preliminary session which they held on Saturday, the GCC foreign ministers agreed in a recommendation over defining the stay period of unskilled foreign workers in the GCC six members states.

The GCC which includes in its membership Saudi Arabia, the Kingdom of Bahrain, Oman m the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Qatar holds a bi-annual consultation summit and another ordinary one by every year end.

The summit which is presided over by the President of the United Arab Emirates, is attended by the Saudi King Abdullah Ibn Abdul Aziz in his first attendance of a GCC summit as a King for Saudi Arabia.

The summit is also attended by the King of Bahrain, Sheikh Hamad Bin Issa al-Khaleifa, whose country hosted the last summit, the ruler of Qatar Sheikh Hamad Bin Khaleifa al-Thani, the Sultan of Oman Qaboos Bin Said, the Kuwaiti prime minister Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah who represents the ruler of Kuwait Jaber al-Sabah who is absent from the summit for health reasons.

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