Foreign Ministers of the member states of the Riyadh-based Gulf Cooperation Council met in New York last night with their counterparts in the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) on the fringes of the 60th General Assembly of the United Nations. The GCC side was chaired by Sheikh Mohammed bin Mubarak, Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Bahrain, who is chairman of the current GCC ministerial council. Abdulrahman bin Hamad Alatiyyah, Secretary General of the GCC, also took part in the meeting which was chaired on the side of ASEAN by Philippines Foreign Minister Dr. Alberto Romilo. The two sides discussed ways of enhancing cooperation between the two regional blocs and discussed the situation in Iraq and Middle East, terrorism and reforms of the United Nations.