Gloom at currency talks points to deep GCC rift

According to this article from Middle East Online, published Friday 5 April, Gulf central bankers are deeply divided as they meet to finalise details of monetary union plans.

"The governors abruptly ended their talks a day early on Tuesday and crammed a scheduled third day of sightseeing in Medina, Islam's second holiest city, into an evening tour," the article says.

"The governors were under intense pressure to clinch a deal on European Union-style convergence criteria to inject momentum into the

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