The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud chaired the Cabinet's session at Al-Yamamah palace in Riyadh on Monday afternoon. - The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques briefed the Cabinet on the phone calls received from the King of Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the President of United States of America and made to the President of Russian Federation, the results of his talks with the President of Federal Republic of Somalia and the President of Republic of Chad, and his meeting with the British Foreign Secretary. - The Cabinet was briefed on the joint statement issued in Vienna on finding a political solution to end the Syrian crisis agreed by 17 countries and reached the common understanding on a number of points. - The Cabinet expressed the Kingdom's condemnation of the continuation of Israeli occupation authorities and settlers of committing crimes against Palestinian citizens and Islamic holy sites, and the continuation of the Israeli army's policy of field executions and committing the worst forms of the organized terrorism against the Palestinian people, calling on the international community to move quickly to provide protection for the Palestinian people and lift injustice on them. - The Cabinet expressed its sincere condolences to the governments and peoples of the Republics of Pakistan and Afghanistan on the victims of the devastating earthquake that struck the two countries last week, also expressing its deep condolences to the Russian Federation's leadership and people on the victims of the Russian plane that crashed over Sinai. -The Cabinet emphasized the speech of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, during receiving the Minister of Culture and Information, senior intellectuals, newspaper chief editors, writers, and journalists on the cohesion of the Kingdom's society and the prevalence of brotherhood, love and co-operation on the right and piety inside it, and that the Kingdom's media always proceed on the approach of the Holy Quran and Prophet's Sunnah on which the State was established since its foundation, which made it enjoy security and stability. - The Cabinet expressed its strong condemnation of the terrorist bombing that targeted Al-Mash'had Mosque in Al-Dahdhah neighborhood in the city of Najran, stressing that these terrorist attacks increase Kingdom citizens' cohesion, coherence, unity and recognition of the schemes of these terrorists and those who stand behind them. - The Cabinet stressed the importance of the sixth ministerial meeting of Pioneering Forum for Separating and Storing Carbon being organized under the patronage of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques by the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, which is a platform to strengthen what is provided by the Kingdom, the host of the forum, of obligations and support over the long years for clean energy and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
