Prince Saud Alfaisal, the Foreign Minister, conferred in Riyadh today with ambassadors of member states of the Jeddah-based Organization of Islamic Conference about the plan of the Kingdom to hold consultations with OIC member countries to mobilize emergency relief for the victims of the earthquake and tsunami which devastated a number of south and southeast Asian regions, inflicting the residents huge material losses and killing tens of thousands of them. The attendees also exchanged views on how to assist some 35,000 children left orphans by the disastrous quake. On their part, the envoys thanked the Kingdom for this initiative and its keenness to alleviate sufferings of the victims.
