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 Monarch briefed the Cabinet on the contents of contacts, consultations and talks held over the previous days with a number of leaders and envoys of countries which dealt with regional and international issues. In this regard, the King pointed out that his meeting with Egypt's President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak comes in the framework of the Kingdom's contribution to stability and peace at regional and international arenas. The Monarch said that the meeting discussed overall situations and latest developments at Arab, Islamic and international arenas topped by the Palestinian cause and Iraq. Aspects of cooperation between the two countries and ways of their enhancement in all fields were also reviewed for the interest of the two brotherly peoples. In a statement to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) following the session, the Minister of Culture and Information Iyad bin Amin Madani said that the Cabinet appreciated the steps taken by Saudi-Yemeni Coordination Council recently co-chaired, in its 17 th session, by Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz, Deputy Premier, Minister of Defense and Aviation and Inspector General and Yemen's Premier Abdulqadir Bajamal. The procedures have demonstrated the relationship of fraternity and kinship between the two countries. The Cabinet stressed that the session's achievements come within the context of a continual process of partnership and prosperity led by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz and Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Salih for the interest of the two brotherly countries and their peoples. --More 05/06/2006 20:25 ت م
