The Minister of Commerce and Industry Abdullah bin Ahmed Zainal Ali Reza met here today with French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner currently on a visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. During the meeting, they discussed commercial and industrial bilateral relations, ways of their further promotion and development , enhancement of opportunities for commercial and industrial cooperation and the achievement of mutual benefits between the private sectors in the two countries. In 2007, the volume of bilateral trade between the two countries amounted to SR 26,879 million; the exports accounting for SR 15,380 million and the imports SR11, 499 million. The meeting was attended by Undersecretary of the Ministry for Foreign Trade Abdullah Al-Hamoudi and French Ambassador to the Kingdom Bertrand Besancenot.
