RIYADH: Gulf foreign ministers expressed solidarity with France Tuesday after attacks claimed by the Daesh killed at least 129 people in Paris.
"The ministers affirmed the support of the Gulf Cooperation Council to France and her friendly people at this difficult moment," the six-nation bloc's secretary general said in a statement after a meeting in the Saudi capital.
Friday's shootings and suicide blasts "will only reinforce the determination of France and the entire world to continue to combat terrorism and uproot these organisations hostile to human civilisation," said GCC Secretary General Abdullatif Al Zayani.
The statement came at a ministerial meeting to prepare for the GCC's annual summit in December.
Since September 2014, French warplanes based in the Gulf have been flying missions against Daesh in Iraq. France extended its attacks on Daesh to Syria in September this year.
