HE the Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani holding talks with GCC ministers of culture in Doha yesterday. The GCC culture ministers were in Doha for their 21st meeting. The Prime Minister and Interior Minister wished the ministers success in their meeting.

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The Ministers of Culture of the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) have reaffirmed their support for Qatar’s candidate HE Dr Hamad bin Abdul Aziz al-Kuwari, Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage, for the position of Secretary-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) in 2017.
This came at the conclusion the 21st meeting of the GCC Ministers of Culture held in Doha.
They stressed the need to enhance the GCC identity through cultural events and decided to organise a special celebration for this purpose during 2016, including several cultural programmes and events in each GCC country under a single slogan.
The selection of the logo will be made through an art competition open to all GCC artists. The State of Kuwait will organise this competition, while the logo and ceremonial programmes will be revealed by the Minister of Culture of the GCC rotating Presidency or through the GCC Secretary-General.
The ministers agreed on the regulations of common cultural action which has been reviewed and modified after the approval of legislative and legal affairs sector of the GCC General-Secretariat. It has been also agreed to review a project to establish a GCC Cultural Village, which will be prepared by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) taking into account GCC identity and presented during the meeting of the General Cultural Committee at the next meeting.
They also supported the co-operation between the GCC member-states and Jordan and Morocco.  
They agreed as well to establish several intellectual seminars in the GCC countries, including a  seminar in Kuwait on the GCC joint strategy, a seminar in Saudi Arabia on the means to cope with the intellectual extremism and an intellectual symposium on GCC Cultural Strategy in Qatar in November which will discuss two main topics, namely: education and culture and activities’ advantages on the cultural scene.