Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council Abdulrahman bin Hamad Al-Atiyyah met here tonight with the Yemen's Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Abu-Bakr Al-Girbi. During the meeting, relations of cooperation binding the GCC member states and Yemen were reviewed in addition to the overall developments in the region, particularly Palestine and Lebanon. Also discussed were the preparation for the meeting between the GCC foreign ministers and their Yemeni counterpart scheduled for Riyadh tomorrow to follow-up the outcome of the donors conference held in London in November 2006. The meeting was attended by Yemen's Ambassador to the Kingdom Mohammed Ali Al-Ahwal and GCC senior protocol officials.
