Month: December 2006

New cabinet announced

And as expected, the line up is disappointing; briefly: We have THREE more ministries created in this cabinet, there were 21 ministers in the past, now we have 24 (including the prime minister). We only have 5 new members: Jawad Al-Urayyedh (3rd deputy premier, been in various cabinets before), Nizar Al-Baharna (foreign affairs), Khalid bin …

27th GCC Summit

I don’t think that a lot of people in the Gulf actually realised that their leaders were in Riyadh since yesterday for their annual summit. The 27th one that is, and maybe the first time in many years where ALL leaders of the six Gulf Cooperation Council of the Arabian Gulf were actually present. I …