A two-day conference bringing together ministers and senior officials from Asian labour countries of origin and Gulf destination countries alongside leading regional and international organizations opens on Monday in Abu Dhabi. The Abu Dhabi Dialogue, which is hosted by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and co-organized by IOM, will bring together for the first time the 11 Colombo Process states with the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, Yemen and three additional Asian countries of destination, namely the Republic of Korea, Malaysia and Singapore.