Secretary General of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Abdurrahman Al-Atiyyah will participate in a meeting of the UN's General Assembly on dialogue among followers of religions, cultures and civilizations, due to be held in New York on November 12, 2008. Al-Atiyyah hailed the efforts of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz and his patronage of the international conference held last July in Madrid.