Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Jassem Mohamed Albudaiwi received on Tuesday Ambassador of the European Union (EU) to Saudi Arabia Christophe Farnaud.
Meeting at the headquarters of the GCC General Secretariat in Riyadh, the officials discussed the agenda of the 27th joint ministerial meeting between the GCC and the EU that will be held in Muscat on October 9-10, said a GCC statement.
"Albudaiwi stressed that the GCC countries and EU are always seeking to increase cooperation and develop relations based on the previously signed Partnership Agreement,” said the statement.
They reviewed ties between the GCC and EU and political issues of common interest.
