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The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf [2] (Arabic: مجلس التعاون لدول الخلیج), also known as the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC; Arabic: مجلس التعاون الخليجي), is a regional, intergovernmental, political, and economic union comprising Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
A 2003 World Bank study stated: "In World Bank geographic classification, the following 21 countries or territories constitute the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates [UAE]), and 15 other countries or territories: Algeria ...
As of 2013, it was estimated that approximately 18 million legal migrants resided in the GCC region. Over the last few years the number of migrants residing in the GCC has increased considerably. [8] The Gulf Research Center defines non-nationals as individuals having citizenship of a country outside the GCC region. People who are lacking any ...
Germany (Deutschland), Austria (Austria) and Switzerland (Confoederatio Helvetica), with Dach meaning "roof" in German. The term is sometimes extended to D-A-CH-Li, DACHL, or DACH+ to include Liechtenstein. Another version is DACHS (with Dachs meaning "badger" in German) with the inclusion of the German-speaking region of South Tyrol in Italy. [11]
GCC commonly refers to: Gulf Cooperation Council, an organization of Arab states; GNU Compiler Collection, a free and open-source cross-platform compiler;
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In 2009, [Bahrain] was the first country in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to claim to repeal the kafala system. In a public statement, the Labor Minister likened the system to slavery. [6] Changes to the Labour Market Regulatory Law were made in April 2009 and implemented starting 1 August 2009. Under the new law, migrants are sponsored by ...
The Gulf Railway project was approved by GCC member states at the 30th GCC summit in Kuwait City in December 2009. [6] [7] Saudi Arabia was the only GCC country to have any railway infrastructure at the time the project was proposed. [8] The original deadline to complete the project was 2018.