Eu Commends Kuwait’s Role In Healing Gulf Rift

The European Union (EU) praised and expressed support to Kuwait’s mediation efforts on Tuesday for the successful reconciliation among the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. “This is a very welcome news .This is a very good piece of positive news because for over three years this prolonged crisis within the Gulf Cooperation Council has been undermining the unity and the corporation within the GCC. It had also had a negative spill over beyond the Gulf region,”

EU lead spokesperson for foreign affairs and security policy, Peter Stano, told an online press conference in Brussels. “We commend in this respect very much the mediation role played by Kuwait all along, as well as by the US,” he said in reply to a question by KUNA.

“We continue supporting Kuwait’s ongoing mediation efforts to achieve the final solution in ending this crisis. And the EU remains ready for the strengthening of our longstanding partnership with a reinvigorated GCC and its member states,” stressed the EU spokesperson. He noted that the 27-member European Union has been always supporting an intra-Gulf solution, negotiated solution to this crisis by engaging with all the main stakeholders and by continuously calling for dialogue.

“Of course we welcome the announcement which indicates a normalisation of the situation, the announcement on the reopening of the borders between Saudi Arabia and Qatar and the airspace also, ahead of today’s GCC summit,” said Stano.

“This is an important step. This will hopefully lead to restoring the unity of the GCC and towards the resumption of the full cooperation within this regional grouping,” he added. The six-member GCC includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

 

SOURCE TIMESKUWAIT

Comments Post Comment

Leave a Comment

Submit