A predictable outcome

In the last issue of our sister publication "Gulf States Newsletter" (No.170) it was suggested that the final outcome of the Gulf Cooperation Council meeting in Taif, attended by the Foreign Ministers of the six member States, could be safely predicted in advance. And so, in the event, it has turned out. The Six agreed without difficulty on a number of issues already wholly acceptable to the Arab world in general, and avoided or skirted around most other matters of a controversial nature.