Article: US Invites GCC Ministers to Israeli-PLO Accord Signing Ceremony

The United States has invited the foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to attend a signing ceremony for the Israeli-PLO agreement on expanding Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank.

The ceremony will be held at the White House and September 28 may be the tentative date for it.

Secretary of State Warren Christopher will host a meeting with the GCC foreign ministers in Washington instead of New York where it was originally planned, said John Dinger, acting spokesman of the State Department.

A U.S. official said most of the GCC countries have accepted the invitation. But the official did not say which country has not accepted it.

Dinger said that "we anticipate that the ...

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