The Ministerial Council, an affiliate of the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) holds a meeting in Abu Dhabi on Saturday (December 17) to make preparations for the 26th summit of the Supreme Council. GCC Secretary General Abdulrahman Hamad Al-Attiyah said that a number of environmental, educational, social, economic and health issues will be discussed during the meeting in addition to the recommendations of the GCC Labor ministers meeting held last month in Bahrain, results of GCC agricultural and health ministers meeting held in Riyadh on November 16th with regard to adoption of measures to face the Bird Flu epidemic. Al-Attiyah added that the Ministerial council will also discuss several other issues including population census, establishing railways project for the GCC countries, issuance of an integrated ID "smart ID", and what has so far been done as regards an integration gulf transportation system. He stated that the Ministerial Council will discuss the current political developments including the Iraqi situation, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the latest in the Syrian-Lebanese issue and the Iranian occupation of the three Emirati (UAE) islands in the light of GCC's well-known and unchanged status towards that occupation.
