Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz, the Governor of Riyadh region, and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder inaugurated here on Sunday evening an exhibition titled " 75 years of Saudi-German Relations." The exhibition is organized by the Heritage Establishment in cooperation with the German embassy in Riyadh at King Abdulaziz Historical Center. Prince Salman and Schroeder toured the exhibition which included a number of photographs and historical documents including the friendship agreement signed in Cairo in 1929 by representatives of King Abdulaziz and the German government. Speaking on the occasion, Prince Salman expressed happiness over Schroeder's visit to the Kingdom, and hoped that the visit would yield positive results. He noted that Saudi-German relations began in 1926, and in 1929 the Saudi-German friendship treaty was signed, and in 1931 a German Consul General was appointed in Jeddah. Prince Salman pointed out that King Saud visited Germany in 1959, and King Fahd visited Germany in 1978, when he was the Crown Prince. Moreover, King Khaled also visited Germany in 1980, while former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt visited the Kingdom in 1976, and Chancellor Helmut Kohl visited the Kingdom in 1985. Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, the Deputy Premier and Commander of the National Guard, visited Germany in 2001, and Schroeder visited the Kingdom in 2003. 'No doubt these visits had positively contributed to further enhancing bilateral relations', he said, noting that Saudi Arabia organized in 1985 an exhibition titled "The Kingdom: Yesterday and Today," in three German cities. --MORE 1120 Local Time 0820 GMT
