Brussels, 01/07/2013 (Agence Europe) - Meeting in Manama (Bahrain) on 30 June, the joint EU-Gulf states cooperation council, which is co-chaired by Catherine Ashton and Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed bin Mohamed Al Khalifa, the foreign minister of the host country, which currently holds the presidency of the Cooperation Council of the six Gulf states (GCC), expressed their agreement on the need for an urgent “political solution” to “put an end to the bloodbath in Syria” and to ensure the...