Arabic News Weekly Edition for Saudi Arabia, 1/29/2001
Weekly Edition, Saudi Arabia - Week of January 29, 2001
- Security cooperation agreement between Iran, Saudi Arabia to be signed soon
The Saudi minister of the Interior prince Nayef Bin Abdul Aziz announced that he will sign with his Iranian counterpart a security cooperation agreement in the current month in Tehran. Saudi Arabia-Iran, Politics, 2/2/2001 - Saudi, Pakistani economic relations reviewed
The Saudi minister of commerce Osama Jaffar Faqih on Monday met in al-Riyadh with the Pakistani minister of finance and the economy Shawkat Aziz, currently visiting Saudi Arabia to take part in the meetings of the 6th session of the joint Saudi- Pakistani joint committee. Saudi Arabia-Pakistan, Economics, 1/30/2001 - Iraqi refugees return back home from Saudi Arabia
Some 38 Iraq refugees returned back last week to their country in the framework of the voluntary return back program supervised by the UNHCR for the Iraqi refugees affairs in Saudi Arabia. Iraq-Saudi Arabia, Politics, 1/29/2001 - Mubarak and purifying the Arab atmospheres
Arab political sources told the London-based al-Sharq al-Awsat daily on Sunday that the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak did not propose during the summit he held with the Saudi King Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz on Saturday at al-Thamaneyah area ( Northern East of al-Riyadh) any Egyptian initiative to purify the atmospheres between Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Egypt-Saudi Arabia, Politics, 1/29/2001 - Cheney, Powel to visit Saudi Arabia
The Saudi daily al-Watan said that the US vice President Dick Cheney and the secretary of state Colen Powel will visit Saudi Arabia in the last third of February in the framework of their tour in the region which will cover besides Saudi Arabia, each of Egypt and Israel. Saudi Arabia-USA, Politics, 1/29/2001