Mecca Hosts Key Meeting on Regional Stability as GCC, Arab Nations Convene

Ministers of Foreign Affairs from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, along with Egypt, Syria, Morocco, and Jordan, are meeting to discuss several topics aimed at supporting and strengthening security and stability in the region.

In a statement, GCC Secretary-General Jassim Mohammed Al-Budaiwi said that the 163rd Ministerial Council meeting of the GCC will be held on Thursday in Mecca, chaired by Kuwaiti Foreign Minister and current Ministerial Council President Abdullah Ali Abdullah Al-Yahya, with the attendance of GCC member states' foreign ministers.

He explained that joint ministerial meetings will be held on the sidelines of the main meeting between the GCC and Egypt (with Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigration Dr. Badr Abdel-Aty), Syria (with Foreign Minister Asaad Al-Shaibani), Morocco (with Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation, and Moroccan Expatriates Nasser Bourita), and Jordan (with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs Dr. Ayman Safadi), each separately.

Al-Budaiwi said, "The GCC Ministerial Council will discuss several reports during its meeting regarding the follow-up on the implementation of the Supreme Council of the GCC's decisions issued at the 45th summit in Kuwait City in December 2024, as well as memoranda and reports submitted by ministerial and technical committees and the General Secretariat, topics related to dialogues and strategic relations between GCC countries and global nations and blocs, in addition to the latest regional and international developments in the region."

These GCC-Arab meetings in Mecca come two days after the Arab Summit held in Cairo, which adopted the Egyptian project for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip and called on the UN Security Council to deploy peacekeeping forces in Gaza and the West Bank.