JEDDAH: Prince Turki Bin Naser, head of the Presidency of Meteorology and Environment, has signed SR700 million worth of contracts for rehabilitating areas in the north and east of the Kingdom that were damaged in the 1991 Gulf War. The contracts, signed Sunday in Prince Turki's Jeddah office, were struck with international and local companies specialized in treating coastal lands and using laboratories for quality assessment. Prince Turki emphasized that the work must be completed on time and to specifications and standards stipulated in the contracts. Qualified Saudis will be recruited to work in these projects, some of which will take two years to complete, he added. “We will include articles and programs to qualify and employ Saudis in meteorology and environmental fields in each future contract,” he said.
