Showing posts with label Gulf News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gulf News. Show all posts

Sunday, September 30, 2012

U.S., Gulf countries seek to advance missile defense plan

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during the Friends of Syrian People Ministerial as Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby (L) sits at the Waldorf Astoria in New York September 28, 2012. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
NEW YORK | Fri Sep 28, 2012 5:47pm EDT
(Reuters) - The United States and its Gulf partners are looking to deepen cooperation on missile defense as tensions rise with Iran, and announcements could come soon on new purchases, U.S. officials said on Friday.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) officials in New York as Washington seeks to boost regional defenses against perceived Iranian threats.
"Our aim is to help our Gulf partners with their defense needs ... there is a missile threat that they face, we want to help them face that threat as best they can," one senior U.S. official said, previewing the meeting for reporters.

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Sunday, August 5, 2012

Gulf Arab countries to discuss unity in September: paper

Saudi Foreign Minister says GCC countries should integrate their foreign and military policy to present a more united front. (Reuters)
Saudi Foreign Minister says GCC countries should integrate their foreign and military policy to present a more united front. (Reuters)
Foreign ministers from the six Gulf Cooperation Council countries will meet in September to discuss a plan for closer integration of the mostly Sunni Muslim monarchies, Saudi Arabia’s English-language Arab News reported Sunday.

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia proposed last December that the Council, which also includes Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Oman, should move “to the stage of unity in a single entity” in response to uprisings in the Arab world and the perceived threat from Iran.

“The initiative to move to a Gulf union will be discussed by the GCC foreign ministers when they convene next month,” said Abdulatif al-Zayani, the group’s secretary general, in comments carried by the newspaper.



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