ASSESSING THE THREAT

The Foreign Ministers of the six Gulf Co-operation Council countries met in Riyadh last week for their eighteenth session of the GCC's Ministerial Council. They sat to a reassuringly routine agenda for a theoretically routine meeting which included such subjects of comforting normality as the fishing regulations of member states, the outcome of meetings of GCC ministers of aviation, transport, communications, trade and education, and- the continuing dialogue the GCC is holding with the EEC countries, the United States and Japan.