Following his stop in Bahrain, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets foreign ministers from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), a Riyadh-based bloc that includes key members of the OPEC+ oil alliance, which Riyadh and Moscow lead. Despite pressure from Washington to ramp up oil production amid spiking energy prices, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have stressed their commitment to OPEC+, underscoring Riyadh's and Abu Dhabi's increasing independence from long-standing ally Washington.

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