United Arab Emirates (UAE) Ambassador Yousef al Otaiba said May 7 that the UAE and other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) “need something in writing” from the United States to better guarantee their security in the wake of an anticipated nuclear agreement with Iran.
But GCC members, whose leaders are scheduled to attend a summit with President Barack Obama at Camp David on May 14, will not get NATO-like assurances of automatic US aid, said Derek Chollet, who was assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs until the end of 2014.