The Gulf Cooperation Council at 40: A regional success story
Dr. Abdel Aziz Aluwaisheg
May 27, 2021 23:01
Leaders (l-r) from Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE and the secretary-general of the GCC at the 41st GCC summit in Al-Ula. (AFP)
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When the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) was founded, 40 years ago this week, it filled a security vacuum created by Britain’s withdrawal from the region.
After more than 200 years of being the main security guarantor across most of the region, the British decided to exit the Gulf in December 1971, four years after leaving South Yemen in 1967.
LONDON: Social media influencers in Germany and France were offered payment by a supposedly UK-based public relations firm to denounce the Pfizer coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine.
Fazze, which claimed to have an address in London, reportedly urged influencers to tell their followers that the Pfizer jab was deadly and that regulators and the mainstream media were involved in a cover-up.
But when the targeted YouTubers and bloggers tried to find out more about Fazze the trail led to apparent Russian connections.
One influencer, Mirko Drotschmann, a German health commentator with 1.5 million YouTube subscribers, said that the PR agency had asked if he wanted to be part of an “information campaign” about Pfizer deaths in exchange for money. But after doing some research, he added: “Agency headquarters: London. Residence of the CEO: Moscow.”
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DUBAI: A British pharmaceutical company set to launch a primary initial public offering (IPO) on the London Stock Exchange later this year is aiming to follow up with a dual listing on the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) in 2022, its CEO told Arab News.
Cambridge-headquartered Atlantic Healthcare is a specialist pharmaceutical company that is working on developing drugs to treat inflammatory bowel disease and other rare gastrointestinal disorders. It currently has six promising clinical programs underway at various stages.
The company last year engaged the services of Saudi investment advisory firm BMG Financial Group. In late 2020, BMG gained Capital Market Authority approval for Atlantic Healthcare’s pre-IPO prospectus and has since been actively fundraising $50 million in the Kingdom.