Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz has received at his palace in Riyadh Kuwaiti Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.

Both Gulf leaders discussed the “close brotherly relations and the overall events in the region were reviewed as well as a number of topics of mutual interest,” according to a statement on Saudi Press Agency.

The Saudi monarch then hosted a luncheon in honor of the Kuwaiti emir.