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182954
Wed, 05/18/2011 - 14:26
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Kuwaiti Activist Dismisses Logic behind Expansion of PGCC
TEHRAN,May 18 (FNA)- A prominent Kuwaiti political activist cautioned that admission of Morocco and Jordan to the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council will put an end to the six-partite council.
Last Tuesday, Morocco and Jordan submitted bids to join the Persian Gulf Cooperative Council, a group that includes Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar and Kuwait.
Later the council accepted membership requests from the two pro-western monarchs in Jordan and Morocco.
PGCC Secretary-General Abdul-Latif Al-Zayani said last Wednesday that the organization has welcomed the bids by the two Arab kingdoms to join the council, despite the fact that they are both non-Persian Gulf countries.
Secretary-General of the Islamic Movement for National Solidarity in Kuwait Zahir Abdulhadi al-Mahmeed dismissed the PGCC move as a naïve decision.
"If these countries join the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council, the council will witness a change in identity and become a league of monarch countries," al-Mahmeed told FNA on Wednesday.
He pointed to the opposition of a number of PGCC member states to the admission of new members, and pointed out that if such a new league is created, it will be very weak, given the likely exit of a number of PGCC member states in reaction to the admission of new members.
Last Tuesday, Morocco and Jordan submitted bids to join the Persian Gulf Cooperative Council, a group that includes Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar and Kuwait.
Later the council accepted membership requests from the two pro-western monarchs in Jordan and Morocco.
PGCC Secretary-General Abdul-Latif Al-Zayani said last Wednesday that the organization has welcomed the bids by the two Arab kingdoms to join the council, despite the fact that they are both non-Persian Gulf countries.
Secretary-General of the Islamic Movement for National Solidarity in Kuwait Zahir Abdulhadi al-Mahmeed dismissed the PGCC move as a naïve decision.
"If these countries join the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council, the council will witness a change in identity and become a league of monarch countries," al-Mahmeed told FNA on Wednesday.
He pointed to the opposition of a number of PGCC member states to the admission of new members, and pointed out that if such a new league is created, it will be very weak, given the likely exit of a number of PGCC member states in reaction to the admission of new members.
