The advisor supervising Internal Information at the Ministry of Culture and Information Abdulrahman bin Abdulaziz Alhazzaa' hailed the ministry's efforts to confront cases of infringement on intellectual and copyright rights which led to removing the name of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from the US watch list on rating countries according to their level of intellectual and copyright rights protection. In a press statement, Alhazzaa' expressed happiness for removal of the name of the kingdom from the US list and highlighted efforts to protect intellectual and copyright rights by the Ministry of Culture and Information. On the same occasion, the Standing Committee on intellectual rights protection held here today a press conference to hail this achievement in the field of intellectual rights protection in the kingdom.