The Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Abdulrahman bin Hamad Al-Attiyah received at his office in Riyadh today the Director of Near and Middle East and Maghrib Affairs at German Foreign Ministry Dr. Horst Fraitag, who is also Chief of EU Political Dialogue Experts Committee. During the meeting, they talked about coordination and consultation on the 7th meeting of the Joint Ministerial Council between GCC and EU to be held in Riyadh, on 8 May 2007. They also discussed a number of issues of common interest.