Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah stressed, in a speech before the 35th Summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), that the "legitimate" concern and "unjustified" fear on the common march of the GCC member countries "compel us to work tirelessly to maintain our achievements amidst critical regional and international circumstances, which justified our concern." The Emir of Kuwait expressed his thanks to his brother HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, the State of Qatar and the Qatari people for the warm welcome, generous hospitality and outstanding preparation for this important meeting, which will be an important addition to the GCC joint work. Today's summit is being held in Qatar a year after the 34th session was held in Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah said, adding "we have lived through concern and fear on the path of our GCC blessed path, which pushed us forward to work hard to keep this path and maintain its achievements under extremely accurate regional and international conditions, which made our concern legitimate and our fear justified and was reflected on the progress of our joint march which faced severe challenges that were about to sweep our GCC entity, which now represents the hope and promise for the people of the GCC countries". --More 21:25 LOCAL TIME 18:25 GMT تغريد