For his part, GCC Secretary General Abdullatif Al-Zayani pointed to the strenuous efforts by the specialized committees that increased gains of the GCC citizens from the bloc's common market. He said that the GCC citizens moving among the member states through the period 1995-2013 jumped from 4.5 million to about 18 million. By the same token, companies whose shares are accessible to all GCC peoples exceeded 600 joint stock ones with a capital worth USD 22 billion, and 290,000 shareholders. By virtue of these positive signals and other achievements of integration, the GCC is going through a new economic reality embodied in decisions of GCC economic citizenship and common market that embraces 47 million people and GDP of about USD 1.6 trillion, besides foreign trade worth USD 1.4 trillion, Al-Zayani told the session. --More 18:19 LOCAL TIME 15:19 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w