Arabic News Weekly Edition for Saudi Arabia, 11/25/2002
Weekly Edition, Saudi Arabia - Week of November 25, 2002
- Al-Walid Bin Talal: the Saudis will withdraw their investment from the USA
The Saudi Prince al-Walid Bin Talal has warned that certain Saudi investors might withdraw their assets from the USA because of the media campaign which targets the Kingdom and talks on its ill cooperation with Washington in the war against terrorism. Saudi Arabia-USA, Politics, 11/30/2002 - Saudi government approves 2003 budget; 10.4 billion deficit
Saudi Arabia, the first oil exporter in the world, on Wednesday evening approved the general budget for 2003 with a deficit estimated at 39 billion Saudi riyals ( USD 10.4 billion), representing a decrease of 3.13 % in comparison with the deficit it had expected for the current year ( USD 12 billion). However, due to the increase in oil price, the deficit in the Saudi budget for 2002 will not exceed USD 2.2 billion, according to estimates of the new government. Saudi Arabia, Economics, 11/29/2002 - Al-Rai al-Aam: Kuwait denies American pressures behind changing educational curricula
The Kuwaiti foreign minister Sheikh Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah yesterday stressed that Kuwait will proceed to changing its educational curricula and developing them, and he denied that this pursue was made at a request or pressure from the USA. Saudi Arabia-USA, Education, 11/28/2002 - Powell: relations with Saudi Arabia are good Saudi Arabia-USA, Politics, 11/28/2002
- Al- Faisal hands message to Mubarak from King; No US pressure concerning Iraq
The Saudi foreign minister prince Saud al-Faisal denied following his meeting with President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt yesterday in Cairo any American pressures on the Arab states concerning the Iraqi issue. Egypt-Saudi Arabia, Politics, 11/26/2002 - Riyadh trusts Rabat's handling of case of 3 saudis linked to al-Qaeda
Saudi Interior minister, Prince Nayef Ibn Abdel Aziz, said his country trusts the way Moroccan authorities are handling the case of three Saudis who are tried in Morocco for links with Al Qaida. Saudi Arabia-Morocco, Local, 11/26/2002 - Riyadh inspects charity funding: We delivered Washington an investigation on Princess Haifa's donations
Saudi Arabia has taken two remarkable steps to contain "the attack" it feels is being carried against it from inside the US. It announced it had delivered the American authorities the results of an investigation made on the financial donations carried out by the daughter of the former Saudi King Faisal, princess Haifa, the wife of the Saudi Ambassador to Washington, Prince Bander Bin Sultan, at a time when Riyadh launched deepened investigations on the activities of all charity organizations in the kingdom. Saudi Arabia, Politics, 11/26/2002 - Saudi Arabia has no sleeping cell; Kuwait: targeting American soldiers is individual incident
Kuwait on Sunday stressed that opening fire at two American soldiers in Kuwait was "an individual incident" and does not indicate that there is a "security unrest" in the country, stressing solid relations with the US. Kuwait-Saudi Arabia, Politics, 11/26/2002 - Saudi crown prince, President Saleh review developments Saudi Arabia-Yemen, Politics, 11/25/2002
- Saudi - Sudanese agreement on comprehensive cooperation
Following Eid al-Fiter in December, Sudan and Saudi Arabia will sign a cooperation agreement that will cover all walks of life. An agreement described by the Sudanese foreign minister Mustafa Othman Ismael as the first of its kind in relations between the two states. Sudan-Saudi Arabia, Politics, 11/25/2002 - Riyadh denies royal financing of two September 11 persons; US Congress shakes US- Saudi relations
American- Saudi relations were shaken yesterday, with the call made by several US Congress members and the state of justice to open investigations on the accusations addressed to the royal family in Saudi Arabia of financing two of the persons accused of taking part in September 11 incidents through its embassy in Washington. Saudi Arabia-USA, Politics, 11/25/2002