HE the Minister of Commerce and Industry Ali bin Ahmed al-Kuwari met at his office Sunday with Dr Nayef bin Falah al-Hajraf, secretary general of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf and the accompanying delegation currently visiting Doha. The meeting touched on issues of mutual concern to GCC member states, particularly on the trade and industrial levels. Discussions focused on the efforts that GCC countries are undertaking to weather the economic and trade challenges arising from the Covid-19 outbreak, and mechanisms to promote joint co-operation amid the pandemic, which would reflect positively on GCC countries and their people and advance their common interests. The precautionary and preventive measures taken by GCC states were also reviewed in the framework of fighting the spread of the pandemic.