First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah hosted a dinner banquet on Tuesday in honor of visiting Omani Minister of Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah. Abdullah will head his country's delegation at the Third Joint Ministerial Meeting for Strategic Dialogue between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and Russia, to be held on Wednesday.The banquet was attended by GCC Secretary General Abdullatif Al-Zayani, Undersecretary of Kuwait's Foreign Ministry Khaled Suleiman Al-Jarrallah, Director of the Office of Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ambassador Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Nasser Mohammad Al-Sabah, Chief of Protocols Department Dhari Ajran Al-Ajran, Director of the Undersecretary Bureau Ayham Abdullatif Al-Omar, and a number of foreign ministry officials.