Saudi Arabia celebrates its national day
Saudi Arabia, Politics, 9/24/2001

Saudi Arabia which celebrated its national day on Sunday, September 23, was established in 1932 at the hands of the late King Abdul Aziz Bin Abdul Rahman al-Faisal al-Saud.

King Abdul Aziz has used the Islamic Sharia as the constitution for the kingdom. Together with his children after him who assumed power in the country, namely King Saud, King Faisal, King Khaled and King Fahd great efforts were dedicated to ensure the country progress in all walks of life.

The country has witnessed a great progress in all economic and scientific fields. Its oil production has been doubled and the revenues are invested to promote the country's overall development.

In the industrial sector, Saudi Arabia achieved vast strides, in addition to attaining self sufficiency in several industrial products through 3100 factories financed at a sum of 229 Saudi billions, the Kingdom, on the other hand, achieved a lot in increasing exports to several countries in the world especially petrochemicals.

This very development raised the total contribution of the ( public ) industrial sector from 6.5% in 1980 to 12.3% of the GNP in 1996.

Similar wide strides were also achieved in the Kingdom in the area of attaining food security through the great support provided to the agricultural sectors especially wheat, dairy, poultry and palms. Planted areas increased from 600,000 hectares in 1980 to 1,7 million hectares in 1996 and as a result the contribution of the agricultural sector to the GNP increased to 8.4%.

Thanks to the progressive policy pursued by the Kingdom in the past decades in order to build and verify the country's economic base towards supporting non- oil industries, which increased for four folds during two decades and as a result contributed to 6.7% of the GNP in recent years.

In the Educational field, Saudi Arabia also witnessed a comprehensive development and this is manifested in 8 universities equipped with best technical means and cadres, besides huge number of intermediate institutes and schools spread all over the country. At the level of the foreign policy, Saudi Arabia, and since the era under the late King Abdul Aziz until the present time embarked on the principles of the Islamic jurisprudence and traditions of the Arab culture and heritage at the Arab, Islamic and international levels.

Efforts have been dedicated to support Arab solidarity, enhancing foundations for Islamic co-operation, defending just Arab and Islamic causes, working for supporting world security and stability and reciprocated non- interference in the internal affairs of other countries.

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