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RIYADH, March 2 (KUNA) -- The Committee on Financial and Economic
Cooperation is to convene next Saturday its 88th extraordinary meeting at the
headquarters of the Secretariat of the Gulf Cooperation Council in Riyadh.
Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council Abdulrahman Al-Attiyah
said in a press statement today that the meeting of GCC finance ministers will
discuss the directives of the Supreme Council at its last session in Abu Dhabi
last December on the Customs Union.
He added that the Supreme Council has advised the Committee on Financial
and Economic Cooperation Cooperation on the need to resolve the outstanding
issues that impede access to the final status of the customs union including a
mechanism to collect and distribute customs revenues and tariff. (end)
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