SANA'A, March 11 (Saba) - Foreign Ministers of Yemen and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) States are to hold their 6th periodic meeting and the 2nd in Sana'a next on Tuesday, foreign minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi said on Thursday.

In the presence of GCC Secretary General Abdul Rahman al-Attiyah, the meeting aims to exchange views between Yemen and GCC states on the course of the bilateral relations and the coordination in Arab and regional issues of common concerns, topped by the preparations for Arab summit to be held late in March in Libya, al-Qirbi told the weekly 26 September.

He said that the meetings will address the development and the current challenges in Yemen in the light of outcomes of the London and Riyadh meetings and the arrangements for meeting of Yemen's friends and the gulf role to assist Yemen to face the security and development challenges.

The meeting will review two reports from the GCC Secretariat General and the Planning and International Cooperation Ministry about the joint cooperation and the steps carried out in the financial pledges vowed by the Gulf States' in London donor conference 2006.

The first meeting of Yemen and GCC States Foreign Ministers held in Sana'a in 2006 before London donor conference.

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