The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz chaired the cabinet's weekly session at Al-Yamamah palace in Riyadh on Monday. At the outset of the session, the King welcomed, in the name of the Kingdom's government and people, the pilgrims who come to the holy sites to perform Hajj, the fifth pillar of Islam. The King emphasized the importance of providing all services the pilgrims need, and called for doubling efforts and executing duties for serving them, since this will bestow a great honor upon the Kingdom and its people. In a statement to the Saudi Press Agency following the session, the Minister of Culture and Information Iyad bin Amin Madani said that the Monarch briefed the Cabinet on the contents of the talks which he had held with Palestine's President Mahmoud Abbas. The talks dealt with the latest developments in the region topped by the Palestinian cause. Then the Cabinet reviewed reports on the developments of situations in the region. In this regard the Cabinet expressed its condolences to the Republic of Yemen on the death of its citizens as a result of a rock slide in Al-Dhufairah village. --More 20 30 Local Time 17 30 GMT
