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Qatari Foreign Minister HE Dr Khalid bin Mohamed al-Attiyah takes part in the meeting of GCC foreign ministers in Riyadh yesterday.
AFP
Riyadh
Gulf foreign ministers expressed solidarity with France yesterday after attacks claimed by the Islamic State group killed at least 129 people in Paris.
“The ministers affirmed the support of the Gulf Co-operation Council to France and her friendly people at this difficult moment,” GCC Secretary General Abdullatif al-Zayani said in a statement after a meeting in the Saudi capital.
Friday’s shootings and suicide blasts “will only reinforce the determination of France and the entire world to continue to combat terrorism and uproot these organisations hostile to human civilisation”, said Zayani.
The statement came at a ministerial meeting to prepare for the GCC’s annual summit in December.
Since September 2014, French warplanes based in the Gulf have been flying missions against the extremist Islamic State group in Iraq.
France extended its attacks on IS to Syria in September this year.
Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE also carried out air strikes against IS in Syria as part of a United States-led coalition.
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