Muscat,(ONA) - The Volleyball Organizing Committee of the Gulf Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) held its 79th meeting via electronic video call in the presence of His Excellency Sheikh Ali bin Mohammed Al Khalifa, Chairman of the Volleyball Organizing Committee and the rest of the representatives of members of volleyball federations in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries.

During the meeting, the minutes of the previous meeting were approved, the reports of the previous tournaments were reviewed, and the thirty-seventh championship of men's volleyball clubs held in the State of Kuwait on February 11, 2020 was approved.

The meeting discussed the upcoming championship program for the year 2020, which included the fifteenth championship of youth volleyball teams which will be held in the Kingdom of Bahrain during the month of August 2020 and the seventeenth championship of beach volleyball in the State of Kuwait during the month of October 2020.

The committee decided to postpone the youth championship to 2022 after it was scheduled to be held at the end of next July in the Kingdom of Bahrain, due to the coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19). The members of the committee cancelled the beach volleyball tournament for young people, which was to be held in Kuwait.

The members of the committee stressed the support and backing of the organizing committee for the Gulf Games, which was scheduled to take place last April and was postponed to December 2020 as a proposed date. The confirmation of the final decision in its establishment within the proposed date remains at the hand of the sisterly State of Kuwait, the host country.

(ONA)