GCC foreign ministers to meet world counterparts

The foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council member states are to hold meetings on the sidelines of the meetings of the UN General Assembly in New York with the foreign ministers of the US, Japan, China, the European Union, the group of Latin American states and the group of the southeastern Asian states, ASEAN.

In a statement he made in Riyadh on Sunday before he headed to New York, GCC Secretary General Sheikh Jamil al-Hujeilan said these meetings aim at exchanging views between the GCC member states and various international circles on matters of mutual concern as well as to discuss strengthening political and economic relations between the GCC states and other international circles.