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Minister of Energy His Excellency Dr. Abdul Hussain bin Ali Mirza participated in the 34th Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Oil Ministers Meeting held on Thursday, September 10, 2015 in the Qatari capital Doha. The GCC’s Ministers met with H.H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.

The Minister said he was happy with the issues discussed by the GCC Oil Ministers and other topics listed in the agenda.

The topics included in the Secretariat memo were as follows: Review the possibility of unification of price of petroleum products in the GCC States, review the GCC energy team meetings, discuss world trade issues and free trade agreements in the region, review and discuss the GCC Petroleum media specialists committee and petroleum media specialists meetings with the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC), review and discuss GCC mining officials meeting, report of the GCC Working Group assigned to study and follow up the developments of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, review the GCC protocol meetings, oil strategy meetings and discuss further cooperation between the GCC countries in the field of renewable energy.

H.E. Dr. Mirza made a statement on the occasion expressing his delight to participate in the meeting with his fellow GCC Oil and Gas Ministers and discuss several important issues related to the petroleum cooperation march among GCC countries, which were reviewed and discussed along means to support and promote the process.

The Minister said that the GCC annual meeting was held to highlight the importance of consultation and discussion of scheduled topics that helped promote cooperation and exchange of views on global oil market and other oil and gas sector issues. He said the meetings contributed positive results and served the interest of the oil and gas based economies of the GCC countries.

The Ministerial Meeting was preceded by the 15^th GCC Oil Undersecretaries Meeting held on Wednesday, September 9. The Kingdom of Bahrain delegation was presided at the meeting by Dr. Ahmed Ali Al Sharyan, the General Secretary of National Oil and Gas Authority (NOGA), accompanied by Mr. Faihan Mohammed Faihani, Director of Petroleum Policies and Statistics.

The Minister was accompanied at the GCC Ministerial Meeting by the NOGA General Secretary Dr. Al Sharyan, and Mr. Faihani and Mr. Ahmed Bucheery, Director, Minister’s Office.