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Yemen govt to seek GCC membership

DOHA, April 29, 2015

Yemen's government will request membership in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), a powerful grouping of Gulf Arab states, the country's spokesman said on Wednesday.

"We will present a plan in Saudi Arabia next month that will prepare Yemen to be included in the GCC," Rajeh Badi told Reuters by telephone from Qatar.

A Saudi-led alliance has been bombing the Shi'ite Houthi militia in Yemen for weeks to reverse the Iran-allied group's dominance on battlefronts across the country and to prepare for the exiled Saudi-backed government to return.




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