RIYADH — Supervisor General of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) Abdullah Bin Al-Rabeeah, who is an adviser at the Royal Court, met here on Thursday with Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Nayef Al-Hajraf. During the meeting, Al-Rabeeah briefed the GCC chief on the humanitarian efforts of KSrelief, the charity arm of Saudi Arabia in a number of needy and affected countries, the Saudi Press Agency reported. KSrelief is currently carrying out as many as 1,661 relief projects and programs covering 68 countries. The two sides discussed the efforts of the Relief and Humanitarian Aid Coordination Office for Yemen, looking forward to developing the office"s work and exerting more joint efforts in the humanitarian and relief aspects. The GCC secretary-general affirmed the importance of the KSrelief"s prominent role in supporting humanitarian works as a leading relief and humanitarian entity in the whole world. Earlier in the day, Al-Rabeeah met with the Regional Director of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for the Middle East, Fabrizio Carboni. During the meeting, they discussed issues of mutual interest related to humanitarian and relief affairs and means of cooperation between the two sides in the field of providing primary health care, emergency medical care and physical rehabilitation services for the injured in Yemen and other countries of the world. For his part, the ICRC regional director valued the humanitarian and relief programs carried out by the KSrelief in many countries of the world, particularly in the Middle East region, looking forward to strengthening the strategic partnership with the center in future programs, especially in the field of combating COVID-19.