Leaders and heads of delegations of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have welcomed the request by Jordan to join the group and assigned the GCC ministerial Council (Foreign Ministers level) to invite the country's foreign minister to enter into negotiations to finalize the necessary measures for that end. In a similar move, the Supreme Council of the GCC also assigned the Ministerial Council to invite the foreign minister of Morocco to enter into negotiations to finalize the necessary procedures for joining the Council based on a preceding communication with the Moroccan Kingdom during which it was invited to join the GCC.