Under the auspices of His Excellency Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, General Secretary of the GCC, who attended the ceremony of giving the ISO Certificate 27001 in information security to the GCC – STAT, which was held on Thursday morning, 6^th of September at the headquarters of the Center in the capital of Oman, Muscat.

Wednesday the 26^th of September, the GCC-Stat hosted the 30^th session of the meeting for the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities (CCSA) in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. The meeting was held over two days and was attended by 25 concerned international and regional organizations, including: United Nations Statistics Division, The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), and a group of United Nations international committees. This marks the first time a committee meeting has been held in the Middle East, specifically in Muscat.

The works of the Regional Preparatory Meeting for the 20^th International Conference of Labour Statisticians were started Monday the 9^th of October 2017 in Muscat, Oman. The meeting was attended by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and a number of Arab countries. The meeting, that lasted for three days, was hosted by the Statistical Center of the Gulf Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC-Stat) at its headquarters in Airport Heights. It aimed to discuss the technical issues with the countries of the region to ensure that the ILO's revised standards cover all types of work as well as the priorities of the labour force data in the region.

Sunday the 9th of April, in its headquarters at the Omani capital, Muscat, the GCC-Stat organized a regional workshop on the management of quality in register-based censuses in the GCC countries. The workshop lasted for two days and ended on Tuesday 11th of April 2017.