Abbas starts a Gulf tour today

The Palestinian ambassador in Riyadh Mustafa Deib announced yesterday that the Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas will arrive today to Saudi Arabia, his first station in a Gulf tour during which he will also visit the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait.

Deib said that Abbas who will pay his first visit to Saudi Arabia since he assumed his mission by the end of April "will discuss with the Saudi officials the situation in the Palestinian territories, the continued Israeli aggressions against the Palestinians and building the so called the security wall."

On Sunday, Abbas will head for Abu Dhabi where he will carry similar talks with the UAE officials and then to Kuwait.

The Kuwaiti prime minister Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah on Tuesday said that Kuwait welcomes the visit of the Palestinian prime minister to the state of Kuwait at "any time."