GCC and EU plan meeting on Syria
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  • (JUNE 24-30)

    Reports noted that the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the European Union (EU) pledged on June 30 to make efforts to help convene a peace conference on Syria. The GCC and the EU countries met for a one-day ministerial meeting in Bahrain which was attended by EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and the foreign ministers of the GCC countries. The ministers “reiterated the utmost urgency of finding a political settlement of the Syrian conflict.” They also pledged to “spare no effort in helping to create the appropriate conditions for a successful convening of the peace conference on Syria” which Russia and the United States have been striving to hold in Geneva. The GCC and the EU also took a swipe at Lebanon’s Shia militant movement Hezbollah which backs the Assad regime. 1

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