Economy and finance ministers of theGulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states will meet in Abu Dhabi on
March 17 and 18 to discuss their unified economic agreement,
officials said.
    The semi-official United Arab Emirates' (UAE) daily
al-Ittihad said they would discuss two clauses, effective from
March 1, opening up wholesale trade and industrial loans in GCC
states to all GCC citizens.
    The six states - Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia
and the UAE - agreed in 1981 to integrate their economies and
eliminate barriers to the movement of people and goods.
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