Foreign Minister takes part in coordination meeting

New York

Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa took part in the GCC Foreign Ministers coordination meeting held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly’s 70th session.

The GCC countries extended their condolences to Saudi King Salman on the victims of the stampede in Mina. They also commended the directives of King Salman to set up a high probe panel to investigate the painful incident transparently.

The GCC Foreign Ministers reviewed the ministerial meetings to be held on the sidelines of the 70th session of the UN General Assembly and the issues on their agenda, including ways of boosting relations with other countries in various fields and means of promoting regional security and stability.

The ministers also issued a statement on the Syrian refugees, pointing out that the GCC countries have received around 2.8 million Syrians since the outbreak of the crisis and ensured they are not treated as refugees by finalizing their legal conditions to enable them to move freely and streamline residence procedures for those wish to stay in the GCC countries.

The GCC countries have also worked on ensuring those Syrian people enjoy free health services, access to the labour market and free education in public schools. They also secured seats for them at the universities and allowed the Syrian workers to bring in their families from Syria and the Refugees camps and renewed expired contracts.

The GCC Foreign Ministers called on the international community to assume full responsibility in providing all needed aid for the Syrian refugees for the immigrants inside Syria.