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Foreign ministers from the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the EU held meetings in Granada on February 27th-28th. While GCC officials had hoped that the talks would focus on a possible free trade pact, but Saudi Crown Prince Abdallah’s Middle East peace initiative dominated the talks instead.
Turkey's State Institute of Statistics announced on March 3rd that February Consumer Price Inflation (CPI) figures showed a rise of only 1.8%, bringing the annual rate to 73.1%.
Tourism to the UAE has suffered in the wake of the September 11th terrorist attacks. Optimism in the sector’s recovery is returning, however, especially with the advent of the Dubai Shopping Festival that began on March 1st.
In a bid to attract global financial institutions to the UAE, Dubai crown prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum announced on February 16th that the emirate would set up the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), with the first licences to be issued at the end of 2002.
The last couple of weeks in Turkey have seen the stock market and the Turkish Lira fall, despite the new IMF standby-agreement confirmed by the IMF on January 4th.
The last couple of weeks have seen some good news for Turkey, including the slow but steady depreciation of the Turkish Lira against hard currencies, which has helped boost exports- total exports rose by 4.6% in January over December- and the Central Bank of Turkey’s (CBT) optimism about inflation.

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