Key Points
New Delhi: This week, while all eyes were fixed on US President Bidens visit to Israel, a first-ever summit bringing together Gulf and Southeast Asian nations taking place 1,500 km away from the conflict zone went largely under the radar...
On Friday, leaders from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) met their counterparts from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at a summit in Saudi Arabias Riyadh..
Though the GCC and ASEAN established relations in 1990, Fridays summit was the first top-level engagement in decades, which resulted in a five-year plan of cooperation that focussed on counter-terrorism, trade and investment, and energy cooperation...
However, Alka Acharya, professor and chair at the Centre for East Asian Studies, JNU, argued that Chinese influence wouldnt be a hindrance to growing cooperation between ASEAN and Gulf countries...
In his address at the ASEAN-GCC Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud called for an end to the fighting saying we are pained by the escalating violence that Gaza is witnessing...
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