Gulf states consultation commission concludes work

Meetings of the consultation commission of the higher council of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which started works of its 5th session on Monday, will be concluded today. The commission chose Khlafan Bin Nasser al-Weihibi from Oman as a chairman for the current session and Mubarak Ali al-Khater from Qatar as a deputy chairman.

Al-Weihibi stressed that the commission witnessed during the previous session positive developments that contributed to strengthening its role as an establishment of the GCC and contribute to revitalizing the GCC march.

He added that the commission was assigned during this session of issues of concern to the "Arab Gulf " public, directly, especially providing proposals to revitalizing the overall development strategy for the GCC member states, a task assigned by the GCC higher council in its 2oth session held in November 1999 and giving priority to studying social issues especially topics relating to youths and the media stated in this strategy as well as studying the question of regional and international blocs.