FAISAL SAID SAUDI ARABIA AND THE OTHER GCC MEMBER STATES SEND THEIR ASSISTANCE TO THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE DIRECTLY AND OPENLY THROUGH THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY. IN RESPONSE TO A QUESTION ON REPORTS THAT THERE WERE DIFFERENCES OF VIEW POINTS AMONG THE GCC MEMBER COUNTRIES ON SOME ISSUES, PARTICULARLY AFTER THE DEPARTURE OF QATAR'S FOREIGN MINISTER BEFORE THE END OF THE CLOSING SESSION, PRINCE SAUD SAID HE COULD NOT SEE SUCH DIFFERENCE. I BELIEVE THERE IS NO PROBLEM SINCE THE DEPARTURE TOOK PLACE AT THE CLOSING SESSION, HE COMMENTED. ON THE USE OF GCC COUNTRIES OF PEACEFUL NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY, PRINCE SAUD SAID THE POSSESSION OF PEACEFUL NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY IS A LEGAL RIGHT AND THAT SUCH TECHNOLOGY IS CRUCIAL TO THE GCC COUNTRIES IN SCIENTIFIC FIELDS TO COPE WITH THE CURRENT PROGRESS WITNESSED IN THIS FIELD. HE SAID THE GCC COUNTRIES OBVIOUSLY DO NOT SEEK THROUGH THIS TECHNOLOGY TO DOMINATE OR THREATEN ANY OTHER PARTY BUT SEEK BRINGING ABOUT STABILITY. IN RESPONSE TO A QUESTION, HE SAID THE SUMMIT DID NOT DISCUSS THE FORMATION OF A UNIFIED GULF PARLIAMENT AS OUR LEGISLATIVE BODIES PRACTICE THEIR INTER-GULF, REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES WITH OTHERS. ON THE ACCESSION OF YEMEN TO THE GCC, HE SAID OMAN SUMMIT 2001 CALLED ON THE ACCESSION OF YEMEN TO A NUMBER OF GCC ORGANIZATIONS. WORK IS UNDERWAY SO THAT YEMEN JOINS THE REST OF ORGANIZATIONS, PRINCE SAUD ADDED. HE RECALLED THAT YEMEN'S FOREIGN MINISTER VISITED THE KINGDOM JUST BEFORE THE OPENING OF THE SUMMIT, CARRYING A MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT ALI ABDULLAH SALIH OF YEMEN TO THE CUSTODIAN OF THE TWO HOLY MOSQUES KING ABDULLAH BIN ABDULAZIZ IN HIS CAPACITY AS PRESIDENT OF THE CURRENT SESSION EXPRESSING APPRECIATION OF AND THANKS TO THE GCC LEADERS FOR THEIR SUPPORT FOR YEMEN, PARTICULARLY AT THE RECENTLY CONCLUDED LONDON-BASED INTERNATIONAL DONOR CONFERENCE. --MORE
