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Wednesday 10 Jun 2015 - 18:00 Makkah mean time-23-8-1436
 Riyadh (IINA) - Foreign ministers of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) will hold a meeting in Riyadh on Thursday.
GCC Secretary-General Abdullatif Al-Zayani said here on Tuesday that the meeting will review key regional and international issues with special reference to the Yemen crisis. “The foreign ministers will discuss the latest regional and international developments related to security and stability in the region at their 135th session here,” said Al-Zayani in a statement. “The meeting is significant as it comes a few days before the high-profile ministerial meeting of the OIC foreign ministers on Yemen in Jeddah on June 16,” said a diplomatic source, while referring to the hectic diplomatic efforts currently underway to solve the Yemen crisis.
He pointed out that these two ministerial meetings — one GCC ministerial meeting and another OIC meeting — also coincide with the long-awaited UN conference on Yemen, which is scheduled to take place in Geneva on June 14. A number of officials representing Yemen’s rival political factions are likely to meet in Geneva to try to negotiate an end to months of fighting. UN Special Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed has been working closely with members of the UN Security Council, the GCC, governments in the Middle East region and other partners to end the Yemen conflict. The Saudi-Yemeni border is witnessing an unprecedented escalation in which the Saudi-led coalition is trying to control and push back the Houthis.
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