“Flight SV841 took off from Chennai for Jeddah a few hours later after it was checked by engineers and technicians at an isolation bay in the airport,” said Saudia spokesman Abdullah Al-Azhar in Riyadh on Wednesday.
“Foreign Ministers from the GCC member states are working on the outlines of the GCC’s negotiating approach,” a GCC official said on Wednesday. “Initial contacts are under way to examine and evaluate Jordan’s membership requirements. Detailed discussions could start later this month.”
“Most of the workers died because of burn injuries, and possibly because of the severe suffocation as well as smoke inhalation,” said Manohar Ram, charge d’affaires at the Indian Embassy, on Saturday
“About 200 cases of child rape are reported annually from the Saudi capital,” said Dr. Hussein Bahashwan, an official of Riyadh’s health department. “Child rape is, of course, one of those horrible new crimes that Saudi society is facing,” Saleh Al-Khathlan, deputy chief of the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) in Riyadh, said on Thursday.
The suspension, however, may be revoked if the Kingdom negotiates and signs a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the protection of Indonesian workers and also agrees to set up a joint task force to resolve cases where employees have been abused.
The call for support was made by a senior Kosovar diplomat on the occasion of the formal opening of the country’s diplomatic mission here Thursday. Rexhep Boja, the newly appointed charge d’affaires, said “even two Gulf states, Oman and Kuwait, have not recognized Kosovo so far.” He said the Kosovo Embassy has started functioning from a hired apartment at the Diplomatic Quarter in Riyadh.
A large number of representatives from the ministries of education of ABEGS member states will attend the two-day event on the “Iftah Ya Simsim” project, sponsored by the GCC Joint Program Production Institution (GCC-JPPI) and SABIC.
“The REDF has waived loans of the citizens of different cities and villages, which come as a big relief for the kith and kin in the families,” said Hassan bin Mohammed Al-Attas, the fund’s acting director general, while giving details Saturday of REDF’s operations. “Those who died after Sept. 11, 2007 will be covered by the loan waiver scheme only if they had been paying the loans’ installments regularly.”
In his congratulatory note Sunday, Al-Zuman said: “I was elated, in fact overjoyed, on learning about the successful expedition of Al-Houby. You have dared to face the harsh freezing temperature and the hurricane-force winds to reach the top. You have become a role model for the youth of the Arab and Gulf countries.”
Al-Zayani told Arab News in an exclusive interview that “The GCC initiative has been accepted by all parties including the ruling regime.” Asked about the demands made by international human rights organizations including Human Rights Watch to revoke the immunity clause from the GCC pact, he ruled out any such possibility or amendment. The GCC chief was speaking on the sidelines of the 30th anniversary celebrations organized at the GCC General Secretariat on Tuesday night.