Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz, Saudi Ambassador to the United Kingdom, patronized here on Tuesday a graduation ceremony of the second batch of male and female students of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Program for Foreign Scholarships in the United Kingdom and Ireland. In an address at the ceremony, Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf said, "My happiness, delight and pride today are not less than my feelings during the graduation of the first batch; as I see the number of graduates in this new batch hiked nearly eight times compared to the number of the first batch, and now this number exceeds 4,500 male and female graduates who have obtained university degrees in various disciplines." "The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Program for Foreign Scholarships represents a distinguished initiative that embodies deep insight and vision of our wise leadership that considers progress of the homeland and its citizens can only be achieved through education on the basis of a delicate balance between our cultural, intellectual, and moral fundamentals, and the leaps of modern scientific, economic and social progress, and at same time, openness to the world's cultures and civilizations". On his part, Cultural Attaché at the Saudi Embassy in the United Kingdom, Dr. Ghazi bin Abdul-Wahid Al-Makki delivered a speech on behalf of the Minister of Higher Education Dr. Khalid Al-Anqari, in which he said that there is now more than 100,000 Saudi male and female students on scholarships all over the world, which confirms that Saudi wise leadership has been able to meet basic requirements of progress and prosperity in consistence with its (the country's) urgent needs.
