The Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani visited on Tuesday, 19 March 2019, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries headquarters, in Kuwait; where he was received by, Mr. Abbas Ali Al-Naqi, the OAPEC Secretary-General, and a number of the Organization senior officials.
During the meeting they discussed aspects of joint cooperation between the GCC and OAPEC in areas of common interest, in order to serve the interests of Arab countries, and enhance their joint efforts in all economic and development fields.
The GCC and OAPEC signed a memorandum of understanding to develop cooperation in the field of Petroleum Media, and strengthen their relations to enhance the Petroleum Media role and reach a joint vision on regional and international developments related to the petroleum industry that is in line with the laws and regulations of the two sides.
The Memorandum of Understanding included a number of areas of joint cooperation agreed upon by the two sides, most notably; prepare joint researches and information studies, exchange the information and media reports that fall within the areas of competence of both sides, joint coordination in regional and international forums of petroleum media, connect the databases of their digital libraries, enhance cooperation with regard to websites and activation of social media; In addition to coordinating and cooperating on organizing and holding regional and international conferences and workshops to discuss the issues of petroleum media.