Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud chaired the Cabinet's session held here today. At the outset of the session, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques briefed the cabinet on the meetings, contacts, and consultations he held during the past period with United States President George W. Bush; Former US president William Clinton; US president-elect Barack Obama; United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon; the mayor of New York city; a number of state leaders and heads of governments who attended the special session held at the General Assembly of the United Nations on dialogue among the followers of religions and cultures which was hosted at an initiative of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; the leaders who attended the Economic Summit of the group of 20 which was held in the US capital, Washington, and British former premier and envoy of the international quartet on peace in the Middle East Tony Blair. In a statement to Saudi Press Agency (SPA) following the session, the Minister of Culture and Information Iyad bin Amin Madani said in this context, the Cabinet stressed the importance and depth of relations of friendship and mutual respect between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States of America and the kingdom's constant policy to extend bridges of understanding to all countries and peoples to serve its national interests and the Arab and Islamic causes and to call for adoption of dialogue and human commonality as a way for rapprochement among nations and societies. --More
