New York, Dhu-AlHijjah 04, 1435, September 28, 2014, SPA -- The fourth ministerial meeting of the Forum of Strategic Cooperation between Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) States and the United States of America has been held in New York with the participation of GCC Foreign Ministers, GCC Secretary General Dr. Abdullatif Al-Zayani, and the Secretary of State of the United States of America John Kerry. They issued a joint statement after the meeting saying that the Forum has worked since its inception in March 2012 to strengthen strategic cooperation, coordinate policies between the two sides, and achieve political, military, security and economic common objectives in the Gulf region. The GCC States and the United States of America have reached during the talks an agreement to take concrete steps to combat ISIS (Daash) Organization, and discussed the key challenges in the region and ideas that enhance stability and security in the region, and support and deepen political, security, economic and cultural cooperation. --More 13:50 LOCAL TIME 10:50 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w