The ECSSR organized a symposium on 'France and the Arabian Gulf' from June 3 to June 4, 2006. A group of distinguished French intellectuals and researchers participated in the two-day event.

The symposium covered important areas of cooperation between the two sides and deliberated on the economic and trade relations between GCC and France, French foreign policy towards GCC states, French role in conflict management in the Middle East, the military and security cooperation between the GCC and France and the French perspective on GCC-EU relations.

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