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Russia hopes upcoming Gulf cooperation council summit to help overcome split among members

Moscow, Dec 23 (Sputnik) Russia hopes that the upcoming summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), scheduled for January 5, will allow Qatar and its neighbors to resolve the ongoing political crisis, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday.
Earlier in December, Kuwait, which has made efforts to settle the Gulf crisis since 2017, announced that the next GCC summit will be hosted by Saudi Arabia.
"Russia hopes that the planned January 5 summit of the Arab states of the Persian Gulf will lead to the overcoming of the split in the Gulf Cooperation Council and allow the resumption of its normal activity," Lavrov said at a joint press conference after a meeting with Qatari Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani in Moscow.
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