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PETALING JAYA: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Salman at the inaugural Asean-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The meeting was reported to centre around the Palestinian issue and bilateral relations.
Anwar arrived in Saudi Arabia on Thursday (October 19) for a two-day working visit. He was reported to have met with Saudi Aramco and the Public Investment Fund before a meeting with Malaysians living and working in Riyadh.
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The GCC is a political and economic alliance formed by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar and Kuwait.
Asean and the GCC established relations in 1990 when the Gulf bloc expressed interest in establishing formal ties with its Southeast Asian counterpart.
The two blocs held their first ministerial meeting in 2009. All individual GCC nations have also acceded to Asean's non-aggression pact, namely the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia (TAC).
As the Asean coordinator for the summit, Malaysia aims to optimise cooperation between the two regional organisations.
