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 Cabinet congratulated the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques on the success of his official visit to the Arab Republic of Egypt, citing the signing of a package of agreements and memorandums of understanding as well as executive and investment programs in a number of areas in addition to the announcement of the establishment of a causeway between the two countries, stressing keenness on closer bonds of brotherhood and solidarity between the Kingdom and the Republic of Egypt. The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques briefed the Cabinet on the outcome of his talks with the Egyptian President Abdulfattah Al-Sisi, resulting in further strengthening the historical relations between the two sisterly countries and cementing their bonds of common cooperation as well as serving the Islamic and Arab nations, and supporting of regional and global security and peace. The Cabinet congratulated the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques on the success of his official visit to the Republic of Turkey, yielding fruitful results in consolidating the strategic relations and witnessing the signing of the protocol for establishing the Saudi Turkish Coordination Council, opening broad prospects for strengthening political, economic, trade, military, security, energy, media, journalism, education and culture ties for the benefit of the two countries and the two brotherly peoples. The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques also briefed the Cabinet on the results of his talks with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of the Republic of Turkey at the Presidential palace in Ankara, and his assertion that the visit comes within the framework of mutual interest in dealing with the causes of concern to the region, topped by finding a just solution to the Palestinian issue, ending the Syrian crisis and countering the interventions in the internal affairs of countries of the region by whoever tries to extend influence without taking into account the international norms and conventions. --More
