The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz chaired on Monday the Cabinet weekly session at the Royal Court at Al-Hawiyyah Palace in Taif Governorate. At the outset of the session, the Monarch briefed the Cabinet on the Kingdom's continuing efforts with the concerned regional and international parties to defuse the Lebanese crisis and to work for halting Israeli attacks on Lebanon and the Palestinian territories. 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 emphasized the importance of the intensive diplomatic movement directed by the King and his messages which are being delivered by the Foreign Minister to the President of the United States of America, Britain's Premier, and Russia's President. The messages clearly and strongly call for the utmost necessity of a cessation of fire, bloodletting and destruction inflicted by Israel on Lebanon and the occupied Palestinian territories. The messages also call for uniting all efforts so that the Lebanese government extends its full sovereignty over all Lebanese land according to Taif agreements and to the sessions of the Lebanese national dialogue in which all Lebanese strata participated. The messages point to the responsibility of Israel for the destruction and intimidation to which its all-out war on brotherly Lebanon has led. --More 24/07/2006 20:15 ت م
