Saudi newspapers' editorials focused today on a number of local and regional issues. Most newspapers highlighted the importance of the 3rd Arab Economic and Social Development Summit which will be held in Riyadh later today. Al-Madinah newspaper said that the Riyadh economic summit is held amid many challenges, a fact confirmed by Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Saud Al-Faisal on the eve of the summit who had said, "The Riyadh summit should be a conventional one." The newspaper said the current Arab situation makes the Riyadh gathering of the Arab leaders an economic summit with political characteristics, requiring greater responsibility and efforts in order to meet the new challenges facing the Arab nation. Al-Riyadh newspaper talked about political problems in the Arab world and said the summit will be consecrate and noticeable in form. The newspaper attributed its prospective conclusion to many reasons saying, "We are still practicing a policy of continuous distancing; however, we hope to achieve some understanding and success which are routes, we doubt, we will cross." --More
