Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah and US President Barack Obama agreed to work closely and remain strategically “aligned” on a range of bilateral and regional issues, said a senior US official in Riyadh on Saturday.
Iranian nuclear deal, Syria’s three-year-old civil war and their repercussions on the neighboring countries were the central themes of the talks between Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah and US President Barack Obama on Friday.
Saudi Arabia will participate in a landmark global nuclear security summit in the Netherlands, to be attended by US President Barack Obama with 58 world leaders, and over 5,000 delegates from across the world on Monday.
Saudi Arabia’s decision to declare regional militant and insurgent groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood, “terrorist entities” was strongly favored by a cross-section of Saudi citizens and Arab expats on Saturday.
Saudi Arabia has strongly condemned the fatal bombing in Bahrain that killed three policemen, including an Emirati police officer, branding it a “terrorist act.”
The Gulf Cooperation Council and Mexico signed a memorandum of understanding here Wednesday on regular political consultations, which will see the two sides strengthen cooperation in various fields.
Foreign ministers of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) renewed their call Tuesday to take strong, “deterrent action” against Bashar Assad’s regime to stop the genocide against innocent Syrians, including women and children.
Key regional issues will top the agenda of a meeting of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) foreign ministers in Riyadh on Tuesday.
Challenges facing the Islamic world with special reference to a joint move to boost Saudi-Maldivian ties topped the agenda of the official talks held between Crown Prince Salman, deputy premier and minister of defense, and Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom in the Maldivian capital Male.
American and Saudi officials held top-level talks Sunday on the visit by US President Barack Obama in March. US Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman met with senior Saudi and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) officials at the meeting.