GCC Risk Management Report: GCC leads the diplomatic assault on Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad

The GCC has been leading calls for greater support of the Syrian opposition,with Qatar and Saudi Arabia particularly vocal on the need to arm those fighting Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. At a GCC summit in December, Bahrain’s foreign minister Sheikh Khalid Al-Khalifa called for a “radical solution ending the tragedy of the Syrian people”, a line that continued at the Arab League summit hosted by Doha on 26 March.