VIENNA: Qatar has chaired a meeting of the ambassadors of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries accredited to the United Nations Office in Vienna, with Ghada Wali, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), at the headquarters of the GCC Permanent Mission in the Austrian capital, Vienna.
During the meeting, which was chaired by HE Jassim Yacoub Al Hammadi, Ambassador of the State of Qatar and its Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office and International Organizations in Vienna, the relations between the GCC countries and the United Nations Office in Vienna were reviewed, and the importance of holding periodic meetings between officials from both sides was emphasised.
The meeting also discussed ways to activate the memorandum of understanding signed between the General Secretariat of the Gulf Cooperation Council and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and considered holding workshops at the headquarters of the Permanent Mission of the Cooperation Council, managed by experts from the United Nations Office, and ways to benefit from the training programs provided by the Office.
