Oman welcomes EU Gulf strategy

Oman welcomes EU Gulf strategy

Muscat – H E Sayyid Badr al Busaidi, Foreign Minister, has welcomed the formation of European Union’s ‘Strategic Partnership with the Gulf’.

The European Commission adopted a Joint Communication on ‘Strategic Partnership with the Gulf’ with the aim of broadening and deepening EU’s cooperation with the Gulf Cooperation Council and its member countries on May 18.

The Joint Communication addresses a series of key policy areas, presenting concrete proposals for strengthened EU-GCC cooperation on energy, green transition and climate change, trade and economic diversification, regional stability and global security, humanitarian and development challenges, and closer people-to-people contacts.

“I warmly welcome the EU Gulf strategy. It conceives a strategic partnership that will enhance our mutual security and help us all transition our economies to net zero carbon emissions,” H E Sayyid Badr tweeted.

Speaking on the partnership, Josep Borrell, Vice-President of European Commission, said, “At a time of insecurity and significant challenges to the rules-based international order, aggravated by Russia’s war on Ukraine, the EU and Gulf countries stand to gain from a stronger and more strategic partnership stretching over a number of key areas.

“We need to work more closely together on stability in the Gulf and the Middle East, on global security threats, energy