Four Arab Gulf states agree on the Qatari candidate for the GCC secretary post

Press sources said that the Qatari candidate for the post of the secretary general of the Gulf Cooperation Council Abdul Rahman al-Ateyah, the secretary of the Qatari foreign ministry got the consent of four Arab Gulf states to this post.

Worthy mentioning the Oman gave up its role to assume the post of the next secretary general of the GCC in favor of the candidate of the state of Qatar.

The sources added that it seems after Qatar's nomination of its candidate to the post of the secretary general of the Gulf Co-operation Council GCC, that it implements what has been implicitly agreed upon not to renew for a new term of office for the current GCC secretary general Sheikh Jamil al-Hujeilan who had two terms of offices to be ended by the end of the current year.