Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Foreign Ministers held two meetings at the United Nations headquarters last night with the foreign ministers of the Rio group and the European Union Troika on the sidelines of the Sixty-third session of UN General Assembly. The Rio group represents South America, Latin America and Caribbean countries. During the two meetings, Prince Saud Al-Faisal spoke about the Madrid World Conference for Dialogue, held in July, and its recommendations which focused on the common humanitarian values which reject all forms of evil and call for good to mankind. Prince Saud said that the recommendations of the Madrid Conference responded to a real need to find a solution to a multitude of problems affecting societies worldwide such as: violence, extremism, intolerance, family disintegration and the spread of drugs. The foreign minister also said that the Madrid Conference appealed to King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, to work on implementing its recommendations on an international level. He said he hoped that the UN General Assembly would hold a special session to discuss the recommendations of Madrid Conference.
