CAIRO - 21 May 2017: Leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) arrived Sunday at the King Abdul Aziz International Conference Center in Riyadh to attend a US-GCC summit in the presence of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Ahead of the US-GCC summit, Trump held bilateral meetings with world leaders, including President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, where the U.S. president revealed he would be visiting Egypt soon.
Around 55 leaders and representatives from across the Islamic world are hosted in Riyadh, where three summits are taking place, including the Arab-Islamic-American summit.
The two-day international summit kicked off Saturday in Riyadh under the slogan “Together We Prevail.” It aims to “renew mutual commitment to global security and further strengthened already deep business, cultural and political ties,” according to the Riyadh summit’s official website.
A Saudi-U.S. summit was held Saturday, attended by U.S. President Donald Trump and Saudi King Salman bin Abdel Aziz. Both leaders revealed signing a massive arms deal worth $110 billion.
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