President of the Republic of Indonesia Joko Widodo received at his presidential office in Jakarta today Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir, Foreign minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, who arrived in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta on an official visit. During the audience, Al-Jubeir conveyed the greetings of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and government and people of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the President of Indonesia. In turn, the President sent his appreciation for the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, expressing his wish to see the relations between the two countries pushed to higher horizons. The minister lauded the deep-rooted relations between the two countries and their keenness to develop them in a way that serves the joint interests in a number of fields. Al-Jubeir discussed with the President ways of enhancing ways of cooperation between the two sisterly countries in the fields of political consultation and coordination, military, security, economic, investment, cultural, oil and petrochemical industries cooperation and other fields in order to create a qualitative leap in the distinguished relations between the two countries in the services of mutual concern as well as the service of the Islamic nation. The foreign minister was accompanied by Ahmed Al-Khateeb, Consultant at the Royal Court; Yousef Al-Basami, the Deputy President and Managing Director of the Saudi Development Fund; Abdulrahman Al-Mifdhi, Secretary General of the General Investment Authority; Dr. Khalid Al-Jandan, the Undersecretary of the foreign ministry for Bilateral Relations; Osama Nugali, Director of Information Affairs Department at the foreign ministry; and Mustafa Ibrahim Al-Mubarak, Saudi ambassador to Indonesia. --More 19:41 LOCAL TIME 16:41 GMT تغريد
