Bahrain will not attend the upcoming GCC summit if Qatar does not change its stand, and the right step to preserve the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is to freeze Qatar’s membership, Bahrain’s foreign minister said on Twitter on Sunday.

Bahrain's foreign minister on Monday suggested suspending Qatar's Gulf Cooperation Council membership until it accepts the demands of its Arab adversaries in the region's worst crisis in years.

UAE Minister of Infrastructure Development Abdullah Al-Nuaimi announced that it was decided to postpone the work of the "Gulf train" railway project to 2020-2021 instead of next year 2018, reported Saudi Al-Hayat newspaper.

The countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council are proposing to put a 31 percent safeguard tariff on imports of flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, they said in a filing published by the World Trade Organization on Thursday.

A Qatari newspaper criticized the absence of the Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Abdullatif Al-Zayani from the crisis witnessed in the Gulf since about a week, after 3 states surprisingly cut their ties with Doha.

Britain's spokesman for the Middle East and North Africa, Edwin Samuel, said that his country hopes a solution is reached soon, and that the (GCC) regains its unity, after states have severed ties with Qatar over claims of supporting terrorism.

Credit rating agency Moody's Investors Service is concerned that the rift between Qatar and other regional states could have an impact on Qatar's credit outlook, if trade and capital flows are disrupted, a senior Moody's analyst told Reuters on Monday.

In a statement to the Saudi “Al-Hayat” newspaper in its today’s issue (Sunday, June 4, 2017), the Bahraini Minister of Foreign Affairs Kahlid Al Khalifa denied knowing anything about diplomatic efforts to resolve the Qatari crisis. Yet, he stressed keenness on the unity of the Cooperation council, highlighting that he knows nothing about any Kuwaiti mediation.

US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, Stuart Jones, said that the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries will meet within a year in Washington with US President Donald Trump.

A United Arab Emirates government minister on Sunday warned that an alliance of Gulf Arab states was facing a major crisis and he said there was an urgent need to rebuild trust.

Kuwait's foreign minister will make a rare visit to Tehran on Wednesday to deliver a message to President Hassan Rouhani on a "basis of dialogue" between Gulf Arab states and arch-rival Iran, Kuwait's state news agency reported.

Kuwaiti Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah announced on that Kuwait would relay a message to Iran from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states over dialogue.

Egypt’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement in which it responded to that addressed to Cairo by the Gulf Cooperation council over the church bombing, which left 26 people dead.

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) leaders ended their 37th Summit in Manama. The closing statement did not break new ground in the “Gulf Union” file, which was heavily promoted in Gulf press during the past few days.

The “Al Asalah Salafist Society” called on the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to consider Iran “The first strategic enemy of Islam, Arabs, and human civilization.”

Edwin Samuel, spokesperson for the UK government in the Middle East and North Africa, said that the largest UK military warship is now present in Bahrain’s Mina Salman Port

Minister of the Shura and Representatives Councils Ghanim bin Fadhel Al Buainain retreated his statement regarding the formation of the Gulf union without Oman, whose position is against its formation.

A statement issued by the British Embassy said that the British Prime Minister Theresa May will visit Bahrain next week to attend the Gulf Cooperation Council summit.

Minister for Shura Council and House of Representatives Affairs of Bahrain, Ghanim Al-Buainain, said that the Gulf Union file will be ready at the GCC leaders’ summit to be hosted by Bahrain next month, adding that the Union might be established without Oman.

Bahrain News Agency (BNA) said that the Minister of Foreign Affairs met on Sunday (November 6, 2016) the Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Abdullatif Al-Zayani, and the Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Kingdom of Bahrain, Simon Martin.