The declaration also highlights raising local e-government employee capabilities and GCC integration, Kuwait's Minister of Communications and State Minister for Housing Affairs Salem Al-Uthaina, who heads the GCC centralized council for information technology, told KUNA.
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The meeting aimed at developing the coordination and cooperation means between GCC states to achieve the views and aspirations of Their Majesties and Highnesses the leaders of the GCC states in an initiative to move from the Gulf cooperation to the union stage as an embodiment of the concern of the leaders and accomplishing of the aspirations of GCC states.
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The meeting is also to discuss development mechanisms for E-Systems of screening expats that would help each GCC country to identify health conditions of expats wishing to enter to any member-country, Dr. Qais Al-Duwairi, Assistant Undersecretary of Public Health Affairs at Ministry of Health, said in a press statement.
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The GCC Secretary-General, Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani, in his inaugural speech at the meeting, stated that e-transactions have become one of the contributories in communities development and an essential pillar thereof which has a great impact on socio-economic, cultural and political arenas.
The event is considered one of the premier thought-leadership conferences for identifying new shared services best practices, particularly within the GCC's government sector.
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