Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – The Emirati academic, Abdul-Khaleq Abdullah, responded to the Saudi writer, Turki Al-Hamad, on Saturday, following the second said that “the hope of unity” among the Gulf Cooperation Council countries is far away, pointing out that this step should not be rushed.
Al-Hamad said on his official Twitter page: “When the “Cooperation Council” was established in 1981, we were glad that the fusion of the six Gulf states into one state is a matter of time, especially since the Basic Law stipulates that.”
And the Saudi academic continued, saying: “Today, the hope of unity has become distant, and the minimum level of cooperation has become the goal, and even hidden conflict and rivalries have become the title of the relationship between most of these countries,” he said.
Abdullah re-published the tweet of the Saudi writer, commenting on it by saying: “The fusion of the Arab Gulf states into one state is a legitimate goal today, as it was when the Cooperation Council was established 40 years ago. But unity should not be rushed,” he said.
The Emirati academic added, “Even Europe has not achieved political unity in 70 years. What has been achieved is the minimum level of cooperation, and the maximum amount of cooperation required, which will then pave the way for Gulf unity,” he said.
A few years ago, Gulf relations went through a major crisis due to the boycott of Qatar by Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt in 2017, before returning to what they were relatively following the Al-Ula agreement in early 2021.
