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Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi met with UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen, on the sidelines of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.The meeting reviewed ways to support Syria at multiple levels, particularly efforts to improve the humanitarian and living conditions of the Syrian people. Discussions also addressed the importance of restoring political and security stability, advancing economic recovery, and promoting development.Albudaiwi stressed the need for concerted regional and international efforts to mobilize humanitarian and development assistance to help the Syrian people and government overcome current and future challenges.The two sides also exchanged views on the latest regional and international developments.

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) urged the international community on Wednesday to take immediate and deterrent measures to halt the inflammatory calls and dangerous practices of the Israeli occupation forces aimed at deepening settlement activity and annexing the occupied West Bank.In a statement, Secretary General of the GCC Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi said that these inflammatory calls, made by a minister in the government of the Israeli occupation forces, confirm the occupation's continuous and systematic approach of destabilising security and stability in the region, reflecting its insistence on undermining peace opportunities and its blatant defiance of international conventions, as well as its continued violation of all laws and norms.He affirmed the GCC's support for the brotherly Palestinian people in confronting these aggressive statements and practices, and in backing the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, first and foremost the establishment of their independent state on the June 4, 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.​