The General Secretariat of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) will organize a panel discussion on "Towards Gulf-African Strategic Partnership" at its headquarters tomorrow. In a statement to Saudi Press Agency (SPA), GCC Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Negotiations Dr. Abdulaziz Hamad Al-Awaisheq said that the seminar will address a number of issues related to the march of the relations between the GCC and Africa and ways to develop them, coordination of efforts to combat extremism and terrorism, foreign interference in internal affairs and its role in provoking religious and ethnic conflicts, to discuss existing programs to build a strategic partnership in all areas and to employ existing historical ties. The workshop, which will be held within the framework of the GCC Forum, will include experts and specialists from the GCC foreign ministries, the relevant sectors of the GCC Secretariat, the Consultative Council of the Supreme Council, the Inter-Governmental Authority on African Development (IGAD), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) African countries accredited to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as well as academics and experts specialized in the African issue.
