GCC security pact sees the light

The Gulf Security Pact has been approved by all the members of the GCC and is to be turned over to a GCC meeting of Interior ministers slated for the end of the month in Kuwait, a GCC official on Wednesday.
GCC Secretariat assistant director for security issues Brigadier Hazza'a Al-Hajri told reporters -- after the end of the preparatory meeting for GCC Interior ministries' undersecretaries, ahead of the 33rd GCC Interior ministers' meeting at a later date -- that the GCC Secretariat had a pact in place on fighting terrorism which could be implemented if the need arose.
He said the preparatory meeting of the undersecretaries came up with a number of significant recommendations, chief of which was adopting a study by the Secretariat on the establishment of a pan-GCC police force.
He also said that the undersecretaries discussed the idea of a unified GCC fiber optic communications network and issues related to drug trafficking, civil defense, and road safety.
The next meeting of the undersecretaries will be held in Qatar next year, he said.