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According to White House officials present in the meeting, he agreed to help bolster the defensive capabilities of the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

But the White House played down reports in the New York Times that Saudi Arabia and other GCC participants were considering matching Iran's nuclear enrichment programme, claiming the issue had not come up.

And in advance of this week's summit it publicly distanced itself from a call by the Saudis for closer GCC integration.

Saudi Arabia took noticeably longer than the five other GCC states to respond.

FOR years the six states of the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) have showered cash on their citizens in the hope they will not campaign for democracy.

ReprintsBahrain, one of six countries in the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC), where Saudi Arabia is pre-eminent, is the odd man out: although its ruling royal family is Sunni, like those elsewhere on the Arab side of the Gulf, the majority of its citizens, perhaps 60-70%, are Shia.

Selling "sponsorships", like letting out the property that foreigners are forbidden from owning in most GCC states, has come to be seen as a natural right of their citizens.

Indeed, if the Yemen operation proves costly or prolonged, GCC public enthusiasm may wane.

Yet with less fanfare, Arab oil money may have a bigger impact elsewhere, in poorer countries outside the Gulf.Over the past six years, some $700 billion in capital has gushed out of the monarchies that make up the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC): Saudi Arabia (by the far the weightiest), Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and the UAE.

This council would not have policy-making powers, but would serve as a precursor for a fully-fledged GCC central bank.

White House officials have been anxious to stress that the mixture of princes and senior ministers attending in their absence when the summit moves to the wooded presidential retreat at Camp David on Thursday will be more than capable of completing the agenda of "modernising and deepening security cooperation" between the US and GCC countries.