Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz chaired the Cabinet's session held here today. At the outset of the session, the King briefed the Cabinet on the meetings and consultations made during the last days with a number of world leaders and political institutions and their envoys on the bilateral relations and the issues of the region and world affairs. In this regard, the King appreciated the visit paid by Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping to the Kingdom and the relations of friendship and cooperation between the two countries. The King also valued the response to the Kingdom's call to hold a meeting of oil producing and consuming countries to work for the stability of the oil market in order to serve the stability of the world economy. In a statement to Saudi Press Agency (SPA) following the session, Minister of Culture and Information Iyad bin Ameen Madani said that in this context, the council commended the positive results of the Jeddah Energy Meeting and discussions on the future plans to restore stability to the world oil market and the proposing of appropriate policies to deal with world economic challenges. The Cabinet pointed out the international praise of the Kingdom's positive role in the world economy and the King's proposals made during his speech at the opening of the meeting to help the Developing Nations and Energy Initiative for the Poor announced by him. The Cabinet stressed that the Kingdom always seeks to strengthen its bilateral relations with countries of the world to realize its national interests; serve the Arab and Islamic causes and open prospects of dialogue, understanding and peace among the countries of the world and to take the initiative in mending the Arab rift; boosting the effect and prospect of joint Islamic activity; establishing a just international economic exchange and pushing for rapprochement among societies and cultures based on its realization of its national, Arab, Islamic and international responsibilities. The Minister of Culture and Information added that then, the Cabinet listened to a number of follow-up reports on the performance of the service sectors relevant to water, electricity, prices of food stuffs and supplies and directed the concerned sectors to carry out their responsibilities fully in a way that achieves the efficiency of the services needed by the citizens in all regions of the Kingdom. --More
