Its southern flank is the Meditetranean.

Subject The Community's relations with the Gulf States

Persian Gulf is an element of historical identity of Iranian People.

Young Basques are being pressed into military service and sent to the Persian Gulf against their will.

Question No 61, by Mr Moorhouse The Community's relations with the Gulf States

We only have two percent of the world's oil reserves 65 percent of them are in the Persian Gulf.

We do the same thing with the price of policing the Persian Gulf and keeping the shipping lanes open.

In the early 1990s, Japan s Self Defense Forces removed mines in the Persian Gulf.

In addition, there are many Baloch living in other parts of the world, with the bulk living in the GCC countries of the Persian Gulf.

To sum up, ladies and gentlemen, the Community will have to meet three challenges.

To achieve this, Saddam Hussein must withdraw unconditionally from Kuwait. The European Community's aid to the frontline states is commendable.

A human tragedy with much in common with the tragic adventure of the many thousands of hostages in the Persian Gulf crisis.

And in parts of the Arabian Gulf, the seawater, the salinity is increasing steadily due to the discharge of waste brine from desalination plants.

The globalization of any conflict may either complicate the issue by introducing a number of factors foreign to the region and to the case in point or, on the other hand, find solutions favoured by those with an interest in the region or in the origins of the conflict.

Doc. B3 1811 90 by Mrs van Putten and others on behalf of the Socialist Group, on the consequences of the Gulf crisis on the ACP and other developing countries

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This still occurs, of course. But the really big money now, more often than not, is made outside the West, in China, the Persian Gulf, and even Russia.

This undoubtedly mixed up document should however today dispose of the governments' uncertainties if it were not disrepectful I would go so far as to call them 'excuses' that governments sometimes make out of other peoples' uncertainties.

Will the Commission report on the progress of negotiations with the Gulf States on a new trade and cooperation agreement between the Community and the Gulf States ?

As early as 21 August the Commission debated the economic impact of the Gulf crisis on the countries most directly affected.

In the Persian Gulf, ongoing international negotiations over Iran s nuclear program are but the latest chapter in a struggle over strategic hegemony, security, and economic interests.

In the face of this opportunity, a very weighty responsibility also rests on the pacifist and anti war movement in Europe.

The Secretariat General of the GCC and the ECB organised a joint seminar on monetary integration in the euro area and in the Gulf region in Riyadh in October 2002 . Finally , the ECB continued regular meetings with the central banks of Iceland , Norway and Switzerland .

Backed by its Gulf Arab allies, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco,and Sudan, Saudi Arabia started an airstrike operation, dubbed Decisive Storm, against Houthi fighters who took control of Yemen in January.

This brings me to the question of how integration of the former GDR is to be financed, this being another area where we find total confusion.

LE PEN (DR). (FR) For more than three months now we have seen a build up in the Persian Gulf region of increasing numbers of opposing military forces, taking risks, to defend Emir Jaber and the oil companies, which they never took for Cyprus, Lebanon or Palestine.

Persian Gulf

Let us get back to the Gulf.

America s military presence was intended, above all, to preserve the Arab status quo, and hence the flow of energy from the Persian Gulf, for the benefit of the US, its allies, and the entire global economy.

China views the region s resources as an essential complement to its more vulnerable maritime energy imports from Africa and the Persian Gulf, and has invested billions of dollars constructing overland pipelines.

Gulf of Oman

A3 301 90) by Mr Colombo

Mr President, taken together with the problems of Palestine, Lebanon and Cyprus, the Persian Gulf crisis is absolutely linked to Europe's future, and not of course just its economic future but even more so with peace, security and cooperation.

No doubt I do not have to explain to the House the rise in oil prices, how that came about and how it has affected my area in recent months.

PENDERS (PPE). (NL) Mr President, for the hostages who are being released today, including half a dozen Dutch citizens, it is naturally a matter of great delight and I send them all my best wishes.

The Gulf is a powder keg!

Its string of pearls across the Indian Ocean a series of potential naval stations connecting China to the Middle East and Africa would support a Chinese blue water navy able to patrol the sea lanes of the Persian Gulf.

In this eight year period, 1977 to 85, when we last paid attention, the economy grew 27 percent, oil use fell 17 percent, oil imports fell 50 percent, oil imports from the Persian Gulf fell 87 percent.

The Gulf States Widening Gulf

The resolution is totally remiss when it comes to a serious and radical solution to the climate of mistrust and confrontation latent in the Mediterranean region and the Persian Gulf, which is the deeprooted reason for this and other current and potential conflicts in the region.

What do you think about the Gulf War?

It's active in the Gulf of Guinea.

The Gulf crisis has left Bulgaria with no oil and Iraq owes Bulgaria more than 2.5 million.

Subject The Gulf crisis and Turkey

Instead, Mubarak s relationship with the Saudis usually determined his foreign policy. When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990 and threatened to attack Saudi Arabia, Mubarak quickly dispatched troops to defend the kingdom. He was keen to support the Saudis and their Persian Gulf allies, who provided him with a steady flow of aid and an outlet for surplus Egyptian labor.