On Sunday 23 October, the elite group from ADMC supervised by Mr. Hedley attended the GCC & Financial integration forum. We arrived on time to Emirate Palace, where the conference was located. Everybody had their names tagged on a card hanging on our shoulders.
The conference that we attended was divided to three sessions and
the first speaker was Dr Abdul Aziz Aluwaisheg, Director General International Economic Relations GCC Secretariat. He was speaking fluent English and we had to use a translation and he talked mainly about the history developments and agreements that were made in recent years by GCC countries in reducing tariffs in the GCC area.
The second speaker was Lukas Stemitsiotis, Head of Unit in the European Commission, EU, and he spoke about the problems and challenges faced by European countries and focused on the debt facing Greece and how to solve this problem.
The third speaker was Dr Aladdin Rillo, Director and Chief Economist ASEAN Integration Monitoring Office. He spoke of the experiences of the Association of South East Asian Nations. He mentioned ASEAN’s Mutual Recognition Arrangements, already implemented for engineers and architects. He talked about the difference between European countries and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and ASEAN; also he spoke about some of the difficulties faced by European countries and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and ASEAN; also he spoke about some of the difficulties facing ASEAN and how they can overcome them.
The session closed with a general discussion which proved to be more of a number of isolated statements rather than a genuine debate.
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