The 16th Annual Forum on Arbitration in administrative contracts, organized by the Commercial Arbitration Centre of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Member States has opened its activities here in cooperation with the Branch of Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Dhofar Governorate The four-day forum was held in the presence of a number of specialists in the field of arbitration from the GCC member countries. In a speech on the occasion, the Secretary General of the GCC Commercial Arbitration Center, Ahmed Najim Abdullah, said that the GCC Commercial Arbitration Centre is a quasi-judicial agency playing an important role in adjudicating disputes in general including disputes of administrative contracts.