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  "id": "RS20831",
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      "id": 304458,
      "date": "2001-02-28",
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      "title": "Gulf Cooperation Council Defense Agreement",
      "summary": "a summit meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), held in Bahrain at the end of 2000,\nsaw\nthe attending heads of state and government take a number of modest measures in the areas of \neconomic and security cooperation which are the organization's objectives. The most important of\nthose measures, in terms of U.S. interest, was the signing of a mutual defense treaty which would,\nif ratified, formally commit the members of the organization to consider an external aggression\nagainst one member as an attack on all. The United States currently provides the security umbrella\nfor those states as part of its Persian Gulf deployment, and has an interest in the defense agreement,\nto the degree that its mutual defense provisions might enable the GCC states to shoulder more of\ntheir future defense burden. This is a one-time report.",
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  "topics": [
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    "Middle Eastern Affairs"
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