Shura Council Discusses Military Retirement

Riyadh, Jan. 24, 2010, SPA -- The Shura Council Presided over by its Speaker
Dr. Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Ibrahim Al Al-Sheikh discussed in its 71st
session here today a suggestion to amend some items in Military Retirement Act.

The Council's Secretary General, Dr. Muhammad bin Abdullah Al-Ghamdi said the
Council listened to a report from the head of a subcommittee on studying
amendment to Military Retirement Act. The Shura Council also received a report
from its delegation recently visited Bahrain, and another one about a meeting
of the Executive Committee of Arab Parliamentary Federation, he added.

Agreements between Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan on air services has been passed
and another one on educational and scientific research with South Africa were
approved too.
--SPA