Moreover, the Secretary General said the summit would discuss a Kuwaiti paper on regional challenges facing the GCC member states, as well as several political issues, namely the situation in Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict, the situations in Lebanon, Sudan and Iraq, the Iranian nuclear file, and cooperation with Yemen. Al-Atiyyah added that the GCC leaders would be reviewing a report by the GCC General Secretariat on studies for nuclear energy usage for peaceful purposes, noting the leaders would ask Iran to respond to the UAE's efforts to resolve the issue of its occupied islands through direct negotiations or by resorting to the International Court of Justice. As for piracy, he said this important issue would be discussed. Other topics of focus will include water systems, and a feasibility study on laying a railway network, KUNA reported.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/617853