Faisal at the outset of the press conference: "In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful, On behalf of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, it is my pleasure to reiterate welcome of the President of the United States of America and his accompanying delegation to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. All over the years, Saudi-American relations have witnessed great strides in the service of mutual interests, and promoting bilateral cooperation in economic, commercial, technical, cultural an other fields. Through these historic and strategic relationships, we have dealt with several international and regional challenges that we encountered together with continuous cooperation, consultation and coordination, within the framework of our shared objectives for fostering international peace and security. This same spirit prevailed the talks that was carried out between the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and President Bush, which were comprehensive, deep and candid. The outcome of these talks yielded promoted bilateral relations by signature of an agreement for technical cooperation in the field of installations and infrastructure security. We also signed a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in the field of nuclear energy and other energy fields. The two sides also exchanged diplomatic notes on completion of discussing the text of the scientific and technical cooperation agreement, to be signed in the near future. --More
