00:00I think the EU is one of the most important strategic partners to the GCC.
00:08It is a very historic relationship.
00:11It covers almost every aspect of our lives, from political to economical to educational
00:18to cultural to investment.
00:21All aspects are included in this partnership.
00:25We have achieved so many goals and so many achievements that we feel in our life on a daily basis.
00:35Definitely the escalation in our region and the Iranian continuous attack on the GCC country
00:43brought the GCC-EU into even closer relationship.
00:48I felt it and this was reflected in my discussion and dialogues here in Brussels with different leaders
01:00in the European Parliament and in the European Commission.
01:04So this is bringing us together. We are looking at the stability and the security of the region
01:11because it is obvious to everybody that the stability in the Gulf is an important element
01:19for the international stability and security.
01:22I'd like to ask you how this experience, these seven weeks of conflict we've seen,
01:26have maybe changed the way that the members of the GCC think about security.
01:31Do you think there's been an inflection point here and do you think there'll be more work on,
01:37for example, partnerships with countries like Ukraine to bolster the region's defence?
01:41There are many, many lessons learned from this conflict and I can categorize them into two parts.
01:50The first lesson learned is how do we achieve our GCC integration that we've been working on since 1981
02:00when the GCC was started. What do we need to do more economically, security, military?
02:07The second lesson learned that we have learned and we need to even work more on
02:14is to upgrade our partnerships with many of our true and good friends such as, for example, the EU.
02:21How do we need to strengthen our partnerships? What aspects should we concentrate on?
02:27How do we look at our partnerships, the ones we have? Do we need new partnerships?
02:32These are the lessons learned that we are trying to work on.
02:37But as I told you before, we are very happy about the fact that our integration and communication
02:44and cooperation is even beyond anybody's expectation.
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