Hillary Clinton and GCC Foreign Ministers Hold Meeting

New York, September 27, SPA -- The foreign ministers of The Gulf
Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and U.S. Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton held a meeting on Saturday on the sidelines of the
64th session of the U.N General Assembly.

The meeting dealt with all aspects of relations between the GCC
countries and the United States as well as regional and international
political issues of common concern.

GCC Secretary General Abdulrahman bin Hamad Al-Atiyyah attended the
meeting.

Another meeting was also held between the U.S. Secretary of State
and Foreign Ministers of the GCC countries, Egypt, Jordan and Iraq,
which was also attended by the GCC Secretary General.

During the meeting, they reviewed the situation in the Middle East;
the Palestinian cause; the latest situations in Iraq, Lebanon,
Somalia and Iran, and other topics of common interest.


--SPA