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GCC Risk Management Report: Iran still top of the agenda, civil activism likely to grow as monarchies face new challenges


Risk Management Reports
Issue 938 - 10 Jan 2013 | 1 minute read

The Co-operation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) was officially set up on 25 May 1981 in Abu Dhabi, when the leaders of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates agreed to set up a council whose aims were to “achieve unity”, formulate “similar regulations” in fields including economics, customs, commerce, communications, education and culture, and to stimulate scientific and technological progress.

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