HE Secretary General of Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dr Ahmed bin Hassan Al Hammadi met on Friday with HE Mr Bilahari Kausikan, Chairman of the Middle East Institute – National University of Singapore and Former Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During the meeting, they discussed bilateral relations and ways of boosting them, (especially in the academic and research and development fields), in addition to discussing developments in the Middle East region (mainly the Gulf crisis) and a number of issues of mutual interest.