Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Chairs Cabinet's Virtual Session

NEOM, September 28, 2021, SPA -- Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Prime Minister, chaired the Cabinet's virtual session today. At the outset of the session, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques expressed thanks to leaders of friendly countries, for their sincere feelings and wishes on the occasion of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s 91st National Day, wishing them permanent good health and happiness, and their governments and peoples steady progress and prosperity. Then, the Cabinet was briefed on the recent talks and meetings that took place between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and a number of countries with the aim of developing relations and advancing bilateral and multilateral cooperation to broader horizons, as this reflects the Kingdom's constant keenness on constructive interaction with the international community in order to establish security and peace and to achieve goodness for humanity. The Cabinet within this context stressed the contents of in Kingdom's speech delivered by the Custodian of Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud before the 76th UN general assembly in New York, including the Kingdom’s visions regarding the current issues and challenges at the world level, and implications that embodied the Kingdom’s key humanitarian, development and economic role at the regional and international levels. This is in addition to the Kingdom’s foreign policy that pays utmost importance to consolidating security and stability, supporting dialogue and peaceful solutions, and creating the right conditions conducive to achieving development and meeting peoples' aspirations for a better tomorrow in the Middle East and around the world. In a statement to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), Dr. Issam bin Saad bin Saeed, Minister of the State, Member of the Cabinet and on behalf of Acting Minister of Media, said that the Cabinet addressed a number of topics at the local and global levels. The Cabinet reiterated that the Kingdom reserves the legitimate right to defend itself against the ballistic missiles and explosive-laden drones and boats attacks launched by terrorist Houthi militia on a daily basis to target civilian objects and threaten international navigation and global energy supplies. The Cabinet renewed the Kingdom's solidarity with the Republic of Sudan in everything that supports its security, stability and prosperity for the government and Sudanese people. The Cabinet also reiterated the Kingdom’s condemnation of the failed coup attempt that took place against the legitimate state institutions in Sudan. The Cabinet touched upon Saudi Arabia’s support for the joint international efforts to facilitate access to COVID-19 vaccines in compliance with intellectual property rights and relevant international treaties, as this comes in light of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's efforts to combat the Coronavirus pandemic and to create conditions that make vaccines available for all peoples. --SPA