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. At the outset of the session, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques briefed the Cabinet on his meeting with former King Juan Carlos of Kingdom of Spain. The Cabinet welcomed the leaders of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for Arab States in their summit at 36th session scheduled to be held in Riyadh, commending the GCC states' achievements and development at coordination and integration level, praying to Allah Almighty that the meetings of the leaders contribute to greater achievements and common GCC actions to meet the aspirations and hopes of the peoples of the GCC states. The Minister of Culture and Information Dr. Adel bin Zaid Altoraifi said in a statement to Saudi Press Agency following the session that the Cabinet reviewed the latest developments in the region and the world, and the results of regional and international meetings and consultations on them, highlighting the Kingdom's emphasis in the Conference of States Parties to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons at its 20th session in The Hague on the importance of implementation of Chemical Weapons Convention, conventions on the prohibition and legalization of hazardous materials and the promotion of international cooperation to protect them; as the Kingdom was one of the first countries which joined the International Treaty on the Prohibition of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Prevention of their Proliferation, as well as the Kingdom's welcome of the United Nations Security Council Resolution No. 2235 in 2015 on the formation of a joint committee between the Organization and the United Nations to investigate the use of chemical weapons in Syria, and confirming the terms of Security Council resolution No. 2209 in 2015, which condemned the use of chemical materials in Syria and stressed the need for the involved parties not to use, develop, produce, retain or transfer chemical weapons. The Cabinet reconfirmed the Kingdom's call in 21st Conference of the States Parties to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris on the importance of working together to launch the initiative for research and studies of clean energy (technical innovation), encourage support for investments and increase them in these areas as well as the participation of the public and private sector, exchange of experiences, cooperation to build capacity for innovation all over the world to improve the standards of living at the international level and enhance the ambition at the local level to achieve clean energy objectives with the passage of time. --More 15:10 LOCAL TIME 12:10 GMT تغريد
