5/31/2010
Officials discuss ASEAN-GCC ministerial meeting agenda - Kuwaiti official
SINGAPORE, A Kuwaiti official said Monday the senior officials discussed the agenda of the upcoming ministerial meeting that will be held Tuesday between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
Head of the GCC department of the Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry Ambassador Jamal Al-Ghanim told KUNA that the secretariats' of the GCC and ASEAN were made responsible during the first ministerial meeting held in Manama of preparing a plan on cooperation in the fields of economy, media, health, culture, and the exchange of expertise.
He said that the meeting discussed the press release that will be issued about the second ministerial meeting.
The release will praised the relations between the two bodies and will call for stressing ties and implementing the plan that ends on 2010, he added.
Senior officials from the two bodies are keen on achieving an economic partnership through signing free trade agreements, he noted.
They called for the exchange of visits and forming teams to follow up the development plan, he said, ASEAN's members are Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand.
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SINGAPORE, A Kuwaiti official said Monday the senior officials discussed the agenda of the upcoming ministerial meeting that will be held Tuesday between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
Head of the GCC department of the Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry Ambassador Jamal Al-Ghanim told KUNA that the secretariats' of the GCC and ASEAN were made responsible during the first ministerial meeting held in Manama of preparing a plan on cooperation in the fields of economy, media, health, culture, and the exchange of expertise.
He said that the meeting discussed the press release that will be issued about the second ministerial meeting.
The release will praised the relations between the two bodies and will call for stressing ties and implementing the plan that ends on 2010, he added.
Senior officials from the two bodies are keen on achieving an economic partnership through signing free trade agreements, he noted.
They called for the exchange of visits and forming teams to follow up the development plan, he said, ASEAN's members are Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand.
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