The General Programme of Saudi Arabian radio will this evening launch its special programme for the 27th summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council, which opens in Riyadh on Saturday. The programme will be broadcast daily at 1830-2100 UTC, and parts of it will also be carried by the other GCC radio stations marking the event, Abdurrahman Al-Haza’a, assistant undersecretary of radio affairs in the Saudi information ministry, told reporters. [The other GCC member countries are Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates]
The program will report on the leaders’ meetings and other GCC related topics, in addition to a one hour live broadcast from 2000-2100 UTC entitled ‘Khalijuna Wahid’ (One Gulf) that includes a news brief of the meetings’ agenda, he added. Al-Haza’a said the Saudi radio will air live the opening session of the summit in addition to the final press conference.
(Source: Kuwait News Agency/R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)