Foreign Ministers of the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council held a meeting in New York today with Russia's Foreign Minister Viktorovich Sergey Lavrov on the fringes of the United Nations 59th general assembly. Following the meeting, Abdulrahman bin Hamad Alatiyyah, the Secretary General of the GCC, who also participated in the meeting, said the talks dealt with issues of mutual concern to the GCC member countries and the Federal Republic of Russia. He said the GCC side was headed by Kuwait's Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr. Mohammed Sabah Alsalim Alsabah, who is currently assuming the GCC foreign ministers rotating presidency.
