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 Tuesday afternoon. At the outset of the session, the King briefed the Cabinet on the outcomes of the telephone call received from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Republic of Turkey, the two telephone calls made to President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation and President Abdulfattah Al-Sissi of the Republic of Egypt, and the message received from President Ilham Aliyev of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The King also briefed the Cabinet on the outcomes of his meetings with Minister of Energy of Russian Federation Alexander Novak, Minister of Security of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina Dragan Mektic, Swiss Head of the Federal Department of Finance and Vice President of Federal Council Ueli Maurer, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation of Kingdom of the Netherlands Sigrid A. M. Kaag, Chairman of United States House Foreign Affairs Committee Ed Royce, and United States Congressman Paul Cook. The Minister of Culture and Information Dr. Awwad bin Saleh Al-Awwad said in a statement to Saudi Press Agency (SPA) that the Cabinet reviewed a number of reports on events and latest developments at regional and international arenas, renewing in this context the Kingdom's keenness on the stability of sisterly Iraq and its permanent stand with all its strata and races emanating from the teachings of the tolerant Islam, historical relations, cognation ties, and neighborliness, and the Kingdom's allocation of one billion dollars to reconstruction projects in Iraq, in addition to 500 million dollars to finance Saudi exports to Iraq during Kuwait International Conference for Reconstruction of Iraq. --More 15:41 LOCAL TIME 12:41 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/1722905
