Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have agreed to endorse a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to boost cooperation in the field of parliamentary affairs and foster high-level parliamentary exchanges.
Saudi Arabia was elected Tuesday to the human Rights Council, the UN’s highest rights watchdog body, for a three- year term following a secret ballot voting at the UN General Assembly in New York.
The Gulf Cooperation Council has stepped up efforts to boost defense cooperation, align security initiatives and face security challenges, said Abdullateef Al-Zayani, GCC secretary general, while speaking at an international conference in Bahrain on Tuesday.
James E. Rothman, the American professor who won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday, said that the King Faisal International Prize (KFIP) has become a “gateway for winning the Nobel Prize.”
The GCC has defied global trends of recession, with the economic bloc projected to expand by 4.1 percent in 2014, Nemat Shafik, deputy managing director of the IMF, said on Saturday.
Saudi Arabia has endorsed Pakistani Ambassador Muhammad Naeem Khan as a candidate for the post of assistant secretary-general from the Asian region at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. Khan is Pakistan’s permanent representative to the OIC in Jeddah.
Member states of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which enjoy better conditions for manufacturing and, in turn, have great potential for job creation, are heading for a “manufacturing renaissance,” said Abdullatif A. Al-Othman, governor of the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA). Al-Othman expressed optimism on manufacturing sector’s growth and said the “great manufacturing renaissance isn’t limited to one continent.”
Saudi Arabia has unveiled a new vision for agriculture through collaboration, which aims to deliver food security, environmental sustainability and economic opportunity.
Movenpick Hotel Al Khobar is lining up several surprises for guests, fun-filled evenings for all and recreational programs for a large number of needy children to mark the 83rd Saudi National Day.
A large part of Riyadh’s 500,000-strong Indian expatriate community have found itself in the grip of election fever as they go to the polls Saturday to elect members of the managing committee of the International Indian School, Riyadh (IISR).