HC Deb 11 January 1989 vol 144 c703W
24. Mr. Butterfill

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will report on the state of relations between the European Community and the Gulf Co-operation Council.

Mrs. Chalker

The European Community's relations with the Gulf Co-operation Council are excellent. A first stage economic co-operation agreement and a political joint declaration were signed last June. My right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State returned today from a most successful trip to four Gulf Co-operation Council countries—Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Oman.