GCC MINISTERS OF PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT BEGAN HERE TODAY THEIR 17TH MEETING. ADDRESSING THE MEETING SAUDI MINISTER OF ECONOMY AND PLANNING KHALID AL-QUSEIBI HOPED THAT THE MEETING WOULD YIELD POSITIVE RESULTS. ON HIS PART, GCC SECRETARY GENERAL ABDULRAHMAN AL-ATIYYAH UNDERLINED THE IMPORTANCE OF THE COMPREHENSIVE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE GCC MEMBER STATES. HE NOTED THAT THE AGENDA OF THE MEETING INCLUDES A NUMBER OF IMPORTANT TOPICS LIKE ACTIVATION OF THE STRATEGY OF COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT IN THE GCC MEMBER STATES.
