Saudi-Iranian committee meets in Riyadh

Meetings of the Saudi-Iranian ministerial committee started in Riyadh on Tuesday. It was co-chaired by the Saudi minister of Trade Osama Jaafar Faqih and his Iranian counterpart, Muhammad Sharia Madari.

In a speech he made at the meeting, the Saudi minister underlined the importance of joint cooperation between the two countries. He called for increasing the volume of trade cooperation between the two countries and expressed hope that meetings of the committee will be a chance to strengthen fruitful cooperation between the two sides.

The Iranian minister stressed that the development of relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran will have a positive impact on the two peoples and governments and the Islamic world alike

The joint committee has established subcommittees in the areas of economics, trade, investment, scientific and technical cooperation, health, environment, education and culture cooperation, information, and youth and the cooperation committee in the fields of communications, electricity, waters and the business committee.

The subcommittees will study means of strengthening joint cooperation to be submitted to the ministerial committee to be approved in its today's final session.