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The Revised Long –Term Comprehensive
Development Strategy For the GCC States
(2010-2025)
2011
The Cooperation Council for the
Arab States of the Gulf (GCC)
Secretariat General
Economic Affairs
Commerce and Industry Department

In the Name of Allah, the Most
Gracious, the Most Merciful

Contents
SR Subject Page
1 Background 7
2 Introduction 9
3 At The Level Of National(Individual) Efforts Of The Gcc States 11
4 At Joint Action Level 13
5 Sustainable Development 18
6 Security and Defense Issues 20
7 Economic Issues 20
8 Issues Related to Technical and Scientific Capacity Building 23
9 The Issue Of Regional and International Economic Relations 24
10 Social Issues 25
11 Popoulation and Manpower Issues 26
12 Issues related to the Media 27
13 Mechanisms forImplementing the Strategy 28

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Background
Based on the recommendations of the Ministerial Council, the Supreme
Council has endorsed the document “Long–Term Comprehensive Development
Strategy for the GCC States (2000-2025)” at its 19th session ( Abu Dhabi,
18th - 20th Sha’abaan 1419 AH, corresponding to 7th - 9th December 1998
AD.).
Over the past ten years following approval of the above document,the
GCC Member States as well as the ministerial and technical committees,
in collaboration with the Consultative Commission, have exerted intensive
efforts to ensure fulfillment of the strategy goals. Many objectives outlined
in the strategy have been achieved so far.
There is no doubt that the sequences of the rapid progress and new events,
which characterized the presence globally, havepositively impacted the
cooperative exertion of the Member States. Furthermore, the document states
that «the Ministerial Committee for Planning and Development shall review
the strategy on a regular basis to cope with the local, regional, and global
success». Thus, the committee at its 17th meeting, (June 2007, Riyadh),
assigned a specialized working group(WG) to review and improve thestrategy
to be in an equal footing with the local and international developments.
The WG has worked for two years to develop the strategy in light of the
relevant GCC organizations’ observations and comments. The WG added
«The economics, regional and international issues» to the previous strategy
issues. Moreover, the strategy goals and their proposed techniques and
tools to accomplish thesegoals have been re-phrased by the WG to achieve
sustained and integrated development in all fields.
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This revised strategy has stressed synchronizing and strengthening the
activities which are outlined in the national development plans to be consistent
with the other Members> plans in order to enable all GCC Members to adapt
to the new prevalence and challenges of the 21st century.
As a resultof the constant efforts of the technical team entrusted with
this task, and after a careful review in light of the suggestions and views
of the Member States on the findings made by the committee set up by
the Committee of Planning Agencies, this document was approved by the
Ministerial Committee for Planning and Development in its 20th meeting
(June 2010, Kuwait), which has decided asfollows:
«The revised « GCC Long-term Comprehensive Development Strategy
(2010 - 2025) GCC was approved and the GCC council was assigned to
submit it to the Ministerial Council at its next session for approval».
This revised document contains a brief review and exposition of the GCC
achievements in terms of development which were made collectively as well
as individually. It also presents anobjective assessment of the challenges
facing the Council in various areas. Based on this objective estimation, the
enhancement of strategic goals and basic objectives of the Comprehensive
Development Strategy have been laid down. The development process and
the mechanisms for achieving the goals and objectives were also set forth on
the same basis.
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