Under the patronage of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, a Saudi-French Symposium for Dialogue of Civilizations will be held at King Fahd Cultural Center in Riyadh on March 7-9, 2009. The symposium will be organized by King Saud University (KSU) in cooperation with the Faculty of Law, the Paris-based University of Descartes; Observatory of Geo-Political Studies in France; Saudi Embassy in France and The Saudi Cultural Department in Paris. In a statement to Saudi Press Agency (SPA), the Minister of Higher Education Dr. Khalid bin Mohammed Al-Anqari expressed his thanks and gratitude to the King for patronizing the symposium which comes in the context of the King's call for dialogue between followers of religions and civilizations. --MORE