Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman with French President Francois Hollande and GCC leaders (from right to left) Sheikh Muhammad Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, Vice President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai; King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa of Bahrain; Sayyid Shihab Bin Tariq Al-Said, representative of Sultan Qaboos of Oman (5th from right); Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Emir of Qatar; Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait; and GCC Secretary General Abdullatif Al-Zayani in Riyadh on Tuesday. — SPA Saudi Gazette report
RIYADH — Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman on Tuesday announced the establishment of a centre to coordinate humanitarian assistance for Yemen, and invited the United Nations to join in relief work for the Arab country. "We hope that the United Nations will participate effectively with what this centre will shoulder, including coordinating all humanitarian and relief works for the Yemeni people with the participation of the countries that are supporting the Gulf initiative," he said in a speech at the 15th Consultative Summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) at Diriyah Palace in Riyadh. The King reaffirmed Saudi Arabia's and its coalition partners' commitment to support Yemen by all means possible. After King Salman's opening speech, French President Francois Hollande spoke at the summit as the first foreign head of state to speak at a GCC Summit since the bloc's inception. Hollande reaffirmed to the GCC member states that they have a “strong and reliable ally in France and that the same threats to the GCC states are the same to Paris.”
