Gulf States to Agree Action against Hizbullah Members
The Gulf Cooperation Council will hold a meeting in Riyadh next week to agree the mechanisms for imposing sanctions on members of Hizbullah, its head Abdul Latif al-Zayani said.
The monarchies of the GCC decided on June 10 to impose sanctions on alleged members of Hizbullah targeting their residency permits and their financial and business activities in reprisal for the group's armed intervention in Syria.
Thursday's meeting, in which deputy interior ministers from GCC member states will take part, would "develop the appropriate mechanisms for applying" the June 10 decision, Zayani said in comments quoted by official Saudi news agency SPA.
The sanctions would be implemented "in coordination... with ministers of commerce and the central banks of the GCC", he added, without giving further details about the precise nature of the mechanisms.
The Gulf Cooperation Council is made up of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar.
Qatari authorities expelled 18 Lebanese citizens from the gas-rich Gulf state on June 20, a government source in Beirut told Agence France Presse.
An estimated 360,000 Lebanese work in the Gulf, according to An Nahar daily, transferring some $4 billion dollars (three billion euros) annually back to the country, which has a population of just 4.1 million.
Source: Agence France Presse
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