GCC and Camp David Summit
US President Barack Obama has invited leaders from the Gulf Cooperation Council countries – Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates – to the White House on 13 May and to Camp David on 14 May 2015, to discuss ways to enhance their partnership and deepen security cooperation.[1]
US President Obama's invitation to GCC leaders for a summit at Camp David is being seen as an exercise to dispel doubts that the announcement of a framework for Iran nuclear agreement and the proposed nuclear deal might put Iran on a path where it might start asserting its regional hagemony leading to growing security threat in the region.[2]
On 5 May 2015 leaders of the five Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries met in Riyadh, ahead of the GCC Foreign Ministers' meeting in Paris on 8 May 2015 and Camp David Summit the following week.[3] The main agenda of GCC foreign ministers' meeting in Paris was to draw the main talking points for next week’s GCC Summit at Camp David. The meeting in Paris, followed by the camp David Summit gets considerable leverage by the latest Saudi stand in favor of a political process in Yemen to resolve the Yemeni crisis[4] peacefully. As a first step in this direction, Saudi Arabia, supported by the US and other allies, is working for a five days ceasefire in Yemen to allow humanitarian aid in Yemen. Saudi Arabia wants that the Houthi rebel movement and their allies should abide by this ceasefire period and bring complete halt to hostility during this period.[5]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Statement by the Press Secretary on the United States-GCC Summit". Office of the Press Secretary, white House. Whitehouse. 17 April 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
- ↑ "The Camp David Conference Under the Shadow of Cuba". washingtoninstitute.org. The Washington Institute. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
- ↑ "From Riyadh to Paris to Camp David". middleeasttransparent.com. middleeasttransparent.com. Archived from the original on 2015-05-18.
- ↑ Yemeni Civil War (2015)
- ↑ "Kerry talks of "effective diplomacy for potential solutions" ahead of Camp David". newsroom24x7.com. Newsroom24x7. 8 May 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
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