Institution
Gulf Cooperation Council
The Gulf Cooperation Council is a regional political and economic union of six Arab states of the Persian Gulf: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman. Founded at Abu Dhabi on 25 May 1981 amid the Iranian Revolution and the Iran–Iraq War, it has its secretariat in Riyadh and has developed a customs union and a joint military force, the Peninsula Shield, though disputes such as the 2017–2021 boycott of Qatar have divided it.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Gulf Cooperation Council. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/gulf-cooperation-council
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