The defense ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries (GCC) held their 18th meeting today at the headquarters of the General Secretariat in Riyadh, headed by Minister of Defense Affairs of the Kingdom of Bahrain Lieutenant-General Abdullah bin Hassan Al Nuaimi, with participation of GCC Secretary General Dr. Nayef Falah Mubarak Al-Hajraf and Assistant Secretary General for Military Affairs at the GCC General Secretariat Major General Ahmed Ali Hamid Al Ali. The meeting dealt with a number of topics of joint military action on the meeting's agenda, and appropriate decisions and recommendations were taken.