Ghazi al-Quseibi becomes a minister
Saudi Arabia, Politics, 9/19/2002

Saudi Arabia's ambassador in London Ghazi al-Quseibi was appointed as a minister of water, established according to a decree by the Saudi King Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz and was issued in Riyadh on Tuesday.

The said Saudi diplomat is known for his frankness. He was the composer of a poem which raised the anger of London when he commended a Palestinian woman ( martyr ) who "carried out a (suicide) operation at the beginning of 2002 in a bomb explosion she was carrying."

In July 2001, the Saudi minister of agriculture and water was divided into two ministries.

Saudi Arabia, which includes one of the driest deserts in the world has some 15 new factories for water desalinization at a total cost of 14 billion dollars.

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