Altoraifi said "we meet today amid regional and international critical circumstances that require exerting strenuous efforts more than ever to coordinate and unite our information and media policies to best serve our GCC countries peoples and live to their aspirations. No doubt that the GCC countries obtain the ability to create events and influence the decision-taking machine to serve those goals. The current phase also requires joint work so that our foreign information address should match with and reflect our information address circulating among our countries". He underscored the importance of achieving the vision of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud regarding ways of enhancing the GCC joint work and integration among the GCC countries, noting that the monarch's instructions were always oriented towards the GCC action unity and what serves the issues of the GCC states. He added that "our world of today is that which witnesses an influential role of information and media, particularly that falls outside the boundaries of the traditional information framework, doubling our responsibilities as information ministers who would be obliged to illuminate our societies of the hazards engulfing them and originated from the extremist terror thought in its capacity as a hostile thinking contradictory of the principles and values of our Islamic religion. We have to highlight the efforts exerted by the authorities concerned in our countries, their determination to fight terrorism, up-root its sources so as to protect the GCC society from the negative impacts which threaten its security and stability". --More 22:04 LOCAL TIME 19:04 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w