Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, President of the Arab Gulf Program for United Nations Development Organizations (AGFUND) and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Arab Open University (AOU) has expressed appreciation of the support of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques to the AOU. In a statement to Saudi Press Agency (SPA) on the sidelines of the meeting of the Board of Trustees of AOU held here, Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz said that the AOU is one of the projects adopted by AGFUND, pointing that beside the AOU's branches in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Kuwait, and Bahrain, it is due to open new branches in other Arab countries including Yemen and Palestine.