

15
OAPEC Activities
efforts resulting in boosting the
cooperation in the past period.
Following
the
speech,
the meeting kicked off and
discussed a number of major
topics including:
• Conveners were informed
about the GCC Petroleum
Cooperation Committee’s
decision at its 34
th
meeting
held on 10 September 2015
regarding the Joint Meeting
for GCC Petroleum Media
Experts Committee and
OAPEC, which included:
- Approving
the
MOU
between the GCC Secretariat
General and (OAPEC).
- Approving the future action
plan between the GCC
Petroleum Media Expetrs'
Commiltte and OAPEC.
• Reviewing aspects of the joint
mediacooperationbetweenthe
two organizations including
exchanging
publications
and studies, linking the
organizations’
websites,
exchanging the publication of
petroleum related news and
topics, in addition to the active
participation in the media
events organized by the two
sides.
It is worth mentioning that
the first two meetings were
held at the GCC headquarters
in Riyadh, KSA, in 2014 and
2015. During these meetings,
discussions were held on
activating the media cooperation
between the Organization and
the Council according to the
GCC petroleum media strategy,
which pointed out to the media
cooperation between the two si
des.