Abstract: At a news conference in June, Abdulrahman Al-Attiyah, the secretary-general of the Gulf Cooperation Council, threatened that the Gulf states might pull out of the long negotiations over a free trade agreement with the European Union if the outstanding issues were not resolved quickly. ......
Abstract: On May 26, 2008, the 18th GCC-EU Joint Council and Ministerial Meeting took place in Brussels, Belgium. As with previous meetings, the two sides issued a communiqué that discussed a long list of issues ranging from the Middle East Peace Process, Iran, Iraq, Terrorism, Proliferation, Human Rights, ......
Abstract: The suicide attack in Rawalpindi on February 25, 2008 that killed Pakistan Army's surgeon-general, Lieutenant General Mushtaq Baig, and eight others is reported to have been carried out by the tribal militants in retaliation against the military operations in the tribal areas bordering ......
Abstract: With Kuwait's decision to peg its currency to a currency basket instead of the dollar exclusively and the withdrawal of Oman, the planned GCC currency union saw two major setbacks this year. Still, its scheduled implementation by 2010 was reconfirmed at the GCC summit in December 2007, despite ......
Abstract: A week after imposing a state of emergency on November 3, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, under relentless pressure from the United States and mounting domestic opposition, announced that general elections would be held before January 9, 2008. ......
