RIYADH, Feb 4: A Gulf Arab official will head to Vienna this month for talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on regional plans to pursue a nuclear energy programme, a Saudi newspaper said on Sunday.

Abdul-Rahman al-Attiya, Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), was quoted as saying in Al Riyadh daily that he would visit the headquarters of the UN nuclear watchdog in Vienna in the third week of February. The paper gave no other details and GCC officials could not be reached for comment. —Agencies

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