Jeddah, Sha'ban 22, 1437, May 29, 2016, SPA -- Foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states held talks with visiting United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and the accompanying delegation. At the outset of the meeting, Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir, Minister of Foreign Affairs, confirmed that the GCC member countries and Britain share deep-rooted relations and that cooperation between the GCC and Britain is constructive in economic, security, military, educational and medical fields. He said today's meeting comes to enhance the historic ties binding the United Kingdom and GCC countries, particularly in the political, security, military , economic, scientific and educational fields, looking forward to a fruitful meeting to the best service of the peoples of the two countries. For his part, the British foreign secretary lauded the historic relations which go deep for hundreds of years, expressing pride of the joint ventures implemented between the two sides and looking forward to see the distinguished partnership extend to face the challenges engulfing the region in all security, economic and political fields. --SPA 18:26 LOCAL TIME 15:26 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w