Riyadh: The Sultanate of Oman participated in the first meeting to discuss the national economic visions of the GCC member states, held on Wednesday at the Secretariat General headquarters in Riyadh.
The meeting addressed several important topics, most notably examining the common pillars within the national visions and adopting a unified Gulf vision for them. This includes aligning the national economic visions' targets with the GCC's shared goals, without prejudice to the national priorities and policies of member states.
The Omani delegation was led by Dr. Nasser Rashid Al Maawali, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Economy.
The meeting was held in implementation of a resolution by the Permanent Preparatory Ministerial Committee for the Economic and Development Affairs Authority at its sixth meeting. The resolution called for a joint meeting at the level of senior officials from member states to produce recommendations on the optimal ways to achieve full mutual benefit in the field of national economic visions and to form a committee to oversee cooperation in achieving and implementing the economic visions in member states.
The committee's goals include coordinating joint efforts in economic visions to achieve integration in the GCC's common objectives while preserving the uniqueness of each national vision. It also aims to build regular dialogue platforms for specialized national bodies to exchange expertise and information on monitoring and implementing national visions, and to discuss practical solutions for common challenges in monitoring and implementing the economic visions.