Officials hold meeting on Managing Maritime Disasters in Arabian Gulf

Dammam, January 12, 2010, SPA -- Officials from 30 military and civilian bodies
in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia held a meeting at the Borders Guard Command in
the Eastern Region today for preparing a plan of the annual exercise for the
management and confrontation of maritime disasters in the Arabian Gulf.


The Commander of Border Guard in the region Brigadier Dr. Musaed bin Salamah
Al-Faydi said that maritime disasters have become issues of high concern to the
international community because of their direct threat to human life and the
surrounding environment.


--SPA