The Deputy Minister for European Affairs, Marilena Raouna, praised the key objective of strengthening relations between the EU and the Gulf countries, in a way that leads to building a strategic cooperation with a positive agenda for the benefit of all countries and their peoples, during the working dinner of EU-Gulf Cooperation Council Foreign Ministers', ahead of the first leaders' meeting to be held this afternoon in Brussels, in the context of expanding and strengthening EU's strategic relationship with the Gulf States.