The Council of Ministers praised Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman for cementing political, economic and social ties with Egypt, Turkey and the Muslim world during his recent foreign trips.
Adel Al-Toraifi, culture and information minister, announced it in a statement to SPA following a Cabinet meeting chaired by the king at Al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh on Monday.
He said the Cabinet congratulated King Salman for overseeing the signing of a package of agreements and investment programs with Egypt. He said the king briefed the Cabinet on the outcome of his talks with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, which resulted in strengthening bilateral relations and ensuring regional and global security.
The ministers praised the king for similar achievements in Turkey, which included the signing of the protocol for establishing the Saudi-Turkish Coordination Council, and opening broad prospects for closer political, trade, military, security, energy and education cooperation, said Al-Toraifi.
He said the king briefed the ministers on his talks with Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, on seeking joint solutions to the Palestinian issue, the Syrian crisis and countering the interference of some countries in the internal affairs of those nations in the region, in flagrant violation of international accords.
Al-Toraifi said King Salman also provided briefings of his meetings in Istanbul, on the sidelines of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit with various leaders including Sultan Hassan Al-Bolkiah of Brunei Darussalam and President Noor Sultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan.
He also provided the Cabinet with details of his meeting in the Turkish city with Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, emir of Kuwait, Prince Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, crown prince, deputy supreme commander and the first deputy prime minister of Bahrain, and the contents of the message sent to him by President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow.
Al-Toraifi said the Cabinet ministers praised the OIC for its resolutions at its 13th session, which included the condemnation of Iran for attacks on Saudi diplomatic missions in that country. Tehran was also lambasted for the “provocative remarks and interventions in the internal affairs of OIC members including Bahrain, Yemen, Syria, and Somalia and its continuing support for terrorism.”
Al-Toraifi said the minister also welcomed the OIC statement denouncing Hezbollah for “carrying out terrorist acts in Syria, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Yemen and supporting movements and terrorist groups destabilizing the security and stability of members of the OIC.”
The Cabinet lauded the OIC for seeking to hold an international peace conference soon to put in place “mechanisms to provide international protection for the Palestinian people and an end to Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories since 1967, including East Al-Quds, as part of the implementation of United Nations resolutions and the Arab peace initiative.”
The Cabinet further condemned the terrorist attack in the village of Karbabad in Bahrain which resulted in the death of one security man and wounding of two others, and stressed that it stood by its neighbor in the fight against terrorist groups.
The Cabinet praised Kuwait for hosting Yemeni consultations and providing the required facilities and capabilities to reach a settlement in line with initiatives proposed by the Gulf Cooperation Council, the outcomes of the national dialogue and UN Security Council Resolution 2216.
The ministers commended the signing of bilateral security agreements with Djibouti, between Crown Prince Mohammed bin Naif, deputy premier and interior minister and his counterpart Hassan Omar Mohammed Burhanuddin.
The Cabinet also studied a report on the visit of Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, second deputy premier and defense minister, to Jordan, which saw the signing of military, energy, trade and investments pacts. A report on his visit to the United Arab Emirates was also considered.
The Cabinet announced several decisions including approving amendments to some regulations of the Advisory Commission for Maritime Scientific Research. The meeting also authorized the Ministry of Finance to sign the Multilateral Agreement on exchange of financial accounts information.
The Cabinet appointed Fahd bin Mohammed bin Ali Al-Turki and Osama bin Mohammed bin Amin Shaker as board members of the General Commission for Statistics for a three-year term; and authorized the Foreign Affairs Ministry to sign general agreements with the Congo, Burundi, Rwanda and South Sudan.
Appointments included Za’ar bin Naif bin Oqab Al-Mohayya as director general of the Anti-Crime Research Center at the Interior Ministry; Abdullah bin Saleh bin Sanad Al-Hossaini as director general for financial control at the Ministry of Finance; Abdullah bin Abdulkareem bin Fahd Al-Hussein as court secretary at the Supreme Court; and Khalid bin Fahd bin Abdulrahman Abu-Haimed as scientific researcher at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology.(ARAB NEWS)
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