[11/March/2010]
KUWAIT, March 11 (Saba) -- Decisions made at the 30th session of the GCC summit in Kuwait last December were referred to the ministrial committees to be scrutinizeda, official said on Thursday, Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) has reported.

Director of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) department at the foreign ministry ambassador Jamal Abdullah Faraj Al-Ghanim said in a press statement at the close of the first meeting of the 13th session of the consultative board of the supreme council of the GCC that the ministrial committee will submit recommendations to the ministrial council of the GCC in order to be presented to the GCC leaders' supreme council during the upcoming meeting.

He went on to say that "the vision adopted by Bahrain on boosting the work of the GCC including many aspects was referred to the concerned committees in order to be studied and submitted to the ministrial council in preparation for being presented to the consultative meeting of the GCC leaders due in Riyadh next May." Answering a question on the mechanism of implementing the decisions made by the GCC summits, Al-Ghanim pointed to a committee that was formed by a decision issued by the GCC ministrial council on following up the decisions'implementation, adding that this committee will hold its third meeting in the first week of next May in Kuwait.

On the relationship of the consultative board to the supreme council, he asserted that the GCC leaders'supreme council refers topics to the consultative board for scrutiny, pointing out the latest GCC summit in Kuwait saw the referral of three topics to the consultative board.
Al-Ghanim also pointed out that the first topic tackles the developing the output of the agricultural cash crops such as date palms and raising the share of the agricultural, animal and fish production in the domestic output.

As for the second topic, it deals with global warming, climate change, while the third and last one touches upon caring for people of special needs and reducing the level of their disability.
Concerning the date of activating the measures of free movement with the smart civilian identity cards among citizens of Kuwait and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Al-Ghanim revealed that these measures will be put into effect "very soon" following the concerned committees' finalization of their work.

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