Riyadh, July 22nd (BNA) –Meetings were held today at the GCC General Secretariat in Riyadh for senior officials on the preparation of joint cooperation plans with Morocco and Jordan, which were adopted by the GCC Supreme Council in its 32nd session in December 2011 in Riyadh concerning cooperation with Morocco and Jordan to establish distinctive relations with those brotherly countries. It was highlighted that those countries have brotherhood, religion and common destiny ties with GCC countries, which the cooperation between them forms a deep, a strategic and an important depth for the security and stability of the GCC countries.
The meeting was chaired by Undersecretary for Foreign Ministry for Regional Affairs and GCC, Ambassador Hamad Ahmed Al Aamer, who highlighted after the end of the sessions of the GCC work teams that cooperation with Morocco and Jordan aims at achieving special strategic partnership, that one of its important standards is to work on strengthening the diplomatic, political and economic partnership.
The GCC partnership with Morocco and Jordan also aims at unifying the efforts of both sides to establish the pillars of security and stability in the Arabian Gulf Area and the Arab Region in general, coordinating efforts in the framework of the Arab League, and unifying the international stances in the known international organizations like U.N., Human Rights Council, UNESCO and others.
The Ambassador highlighted that the joint work plans with the two brotherly countries also aim at strengthening the economic and trade relations, increasing the trade exchange volume, facilitating the customs barriers, encouraging investments and means of full integration in food security, benefiting from the renewable energy, and cooperation in the areas of environment, sustainable development, social affairs, transportation, and communications.
The aim of the joint work plans will also address tourism, higher education, scientific research, youth and sports, media, culture, communications, information technology, establishment of small and medium enterprises, encouraging the role of private sector on the commercial and industrial levels to reinforce strategic partnership to help both sides to deal with all the challenges, particularly in this critical stage witnessed by the Arab Nation.
It’s worth mentioning that the most important priorities of today’s meeting is to accelerate the implementation of the joint work plans adopted by both sides in their meeting in Kingdom of Bahrain in November 2012, in coordination with the officials in both brotherly countries to submit what has been implemented to the joint ministerial meeting.
Such joint ministerial meeting will gather GCC foreign ministers with the two foreign ministers of Morocco and Jordan, and will be held on the sidelines of the preparatory meetings of GCC foreign ministers in preparation of the GCC next Summit in State of Kuwait.
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BNA 1306 GMT 2013/07/22
