Sep. 22, 2023

Scoop: Plans for historic GCC-Iran-Iraq dinner in New York collapse

Peninsula/Diplomacy

Plans for a historic meeting in New York gathering the foreign ministers of Gulf Arab states, Iran and Iraq have collapsed at the last minute, Amwaj.media has learned. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was set to chair the session on Sept. 23. But an escalating dispute between Iraq and Kuwait has put a stop to the endeavor, informed sources say. As the meeting is “unlikely” at this point, a senior political source in New York said, “worst-case scenarios are...

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