GCC Commerce Mins. eye closer ties

MANAMA, May 23 (KUNA) -- The Ministers of Commerce and Industry in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) met on Tuesday to examine strategies to deepen cooperation on both regional and international levels.
The Kuwaiti Ministry of Commerce and Industry's Assistant Undersecretary for International Affairs and Foreign Commerce Nimr Al-Sabah told KUNA that the meeting tackled a comprehensive agenda.
They mainly discussed issues such as consumer protection and patent transfers in the GCC member states, the official added.
Meanwhile, Director General of Kuwait's Public Authority for Industry (PAI) Abdulkarim Taqi said that a meeting of GCC Undersecretaries of Commerce and Industry yielded plans for a joint Gulf industrial strategy.
In a speech to open the 55th meeting of the GCC Commercial Cooperation Committee, Bahraini Minister of Commerce and Industry Zayed Al-Zayani said that commercial trade within the GCC has made tangible progress.
Kuwait's Minister of Commerce and Industry Khaled Al-Roudhan took part in the GCC Commercial and Industrial Cooperation Committee meetings, hosted by Bahrain on May 22-23. (end) hmd.nam