Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques chairs Cabinet's session

Jeddah, November 24, SPA -- Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King
Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud chaired the Cabinet's session held
here today.

At the outset of the session, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques
briefed the cabinet on the meetings, contacts, and consultations he
held during the past period with United States President George W.
Bush; Former US president William Clinton; US president-elect Barack
Obama; United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon; the mayor of New
York city; a number of state leaders and heads of governments who
attended the special session held at the General Assembly of the
United Nations on dialogue among the followers of religions and
cultures which was hosted at an initiative of the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia; the leaders who attended the Economic Summit of the group of
20 which was held in the US capital, Washington, and British former
premier and envoy of the international quartet on peace in the Middle
East Tony Blair.
In a statement to Saudi Press Agency (SPA) following the session, the
Minister of Culture and Information Iyad bin Amin Madani said in this
context, the Cabinet stressed the importance and depth of relations
of friendship and mutual respect between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
and the United States of America and the kingdom's constant policy to
extend bridges of understanding to all countries and peoples to serve
its national interests and the Arab and Islamic causes and to call
for adoption of dialogue and human commonality as a way for
rapprochement among nations and societies.
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