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[email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Gulf states ready Jeddah meet ‘resolves’ envoy row to help counter jihadist advance GCC foreign ministers agree on terms and criteria for return of envoys to Qatar JEDDAH: Gulf Arab states said yesterday that they were DOHA: The diplomatic dead- ready to help counter advances lock between Qatar and its by jihadists in Syria and Iraq, three GCC peers — Saudi after the US called for a global Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain coalition to fight the militants. — is likely to end soon, with But the six-nation Gulf Kuwait’s First Deputy Prime Cooperation Council said it was Minister and Foreign Minister awaiting details from Washington saying that the ambassadors of and a visit to the region by US the three countries could return Secretary of State Department to Doha “any moment”, Qatar John Kerry to discuss anti-jihad- News Agency (QNA) reported ist cooperation. yesterday. A GCC statement said Gulf The issue was discussed at states are ready to act “against length at the meeting of the for- terrorist threats that face the eign ministers of the GCC states region and the world”. (held in Jeddah yesterday) and The GCC foreign ministers also the terms and criteria for the pledged a readiness to fight “ter- return of the envoys have been rorist ideology which is contrary agreed upon.