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Dr. Abdulaziz Sager, Chairman of the Gulf Research Center (GRC), visited the International Institute of Central Asia @IICAinTashkent (IICA) in Tashkent, Republic of Uzbekistan, on April 29, 2025. During the visit, he met with Ambassador Javlon Vakhabov, Managing Director of the IICA, along with colleagues from the institute.

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On the sidelines of the GCC-Central Asia Think Tank Forum in Tashkent on April 28, 2025, the Gulf Research Center (GRC) and the Institute for Strategic and Regional Studies under the President of Uzbekistan (ISRS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen research collaboration and promote deeper regional dialogue.

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The Gulf Research Center (GRC), in collaboration with the Institute for Strategic and Regional Studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, organized the first Think Tank Forum between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states and the Central Asian countries, under the theme "Strengthening the Strategic Partnership between the GCC and Central Asian Countries: From Historical Ties to Comprehensive Cooperation," on April 28–29, 2025, in Tashkent, Republic of Uzbekistan.

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The Chairman of the Gulf Research Center (GRC), Dr. Abdulaziz Sager, participated in an interview with “ The Middle East” entitled “Trump’s Visit to Saudi Arabia Lays the Foundation for Deeper Strategic Relations.”

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Major Groups Engagement Modalities in The Science-Policy Panel (SPP) on Chemicals, Waste, and Pollution Prevention

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On April 22, 2025, at the Gulf Research Center’s office in Riyadh, Dr. Abdulaziz Sager, Chairman of the Gulf Research Center (GRC), and Prof. Saleh Al-Khathlan, Senior Advisor at the GRC, met with Prof. Dr. Rob de Wijk, Director of The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS) and Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University, and Dr. Arend Jan Boekestijn, Associate Professor at University College Utrecht. Both sides discussed areas of mutual interest as well as GCC-EU relations.

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On April 21, 2025, Dr. Ahmed Sager, Vice President of the Gulf Research Center (GRC), participated in the GCC-C5 Summit Preparatory Workshop held in Tashkent.

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GRC was founded in July 2000 by Dr. Abdulaziz Sager, a Saudi businessman. Dr. Sager's vision was to fill an important void and to conduct scholarly, high quality research on all aspects of the wider strategic Gulf region including the GCC countries as well as Iran, Iraq and Yemen.

GRC operates on an independent, non-profit basis. Its belief is that everyone has the right to access knowledge, so it has made all its research available to the general public through publications, workshops, seminars, and conferences.

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Central Asia and the GCC: From Historical Ties to Strategic Partnership

Date: 27 April, 2025

Writer: Dr. Abdulaziz Sager & Dr. Eldor Aripov

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Major Groups Engagement Modalities in The Science-Policy Panel (SPP) on Chemicals, Waste, and Pollution Prevention

StartDate: 23 -April -2025

Major Groups Engagement Modalities in The Science-Policy Panel (SPP) on Chemicals, Waste, and Pollution Prevention

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Gulf Research Center’s Gulf-Europe Research Program

Publication Date: March 13 , 2025
Publication Category: Reports

In July 2004, the Gulf Research Center established a dedicated research program on relations between the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the European ...

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