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Arab Economic and Social Council holds session

Cairo, August 28, SPA--Arab Economic and Social Council held here
today its 82nd session under the chairmanship of Minister of Finance
Dr. Ibrahim bin Abdulaziz Al- Assaf, the head of the delegation of
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the session, and with the participation of
12 ministers of finance and economy of Arab states.

In his inaugural speech, Dr. Al-Assaf said that the joint Arab
economic cooperation has achieved good results over the past decade,
noting that inter-Arab trade reached 10.5 percent of Arab total trade
at the end of 2006 while Arab investments increased to U.S.18 billion
in the same year.

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