Obama Invites Gulf Leaders To White House, Camp David

President to hold talks on Iran, Yemen next month with leaders of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE

US President Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House on April 14, 2015 in Washington, DC. (photo credit: AFP/MANDEL NGAN)

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has invited the heads of Gulf Cooperation Council countries to the White House and then to Camp David. Negotiations over Iran’s nuclear capabilities and the turmoil in Yemen are topics high on the agenda.

The White House said Obama will meet with the leaders of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in the White House on May 13 and then at Camp David, the presidential mountaintop retreat in Maryland, on May 14.

Obama has portrayed the Iran deal as necessary to reduce the chances of the combustible Middle East becoming even more unstable with the introduction of a nuclear-armed Iran.

The Sunni-majority Saudis have made veiled threats about creating their own nuclear program to counter Shiite-led Iran.

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