Riyadh - Arab Today
The Joint Ministerial Committee between Sudan and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia convenes the meetings of its sixth session in Jeddah on July 26-27.
The Sudanese side at the meeting of the joint ministerial committee would be led by Minister of Agriculture and Forests Dr. Abdel-Latief Egaimi, while the Saudi Minister of Environment, Water and Agriculture, Engineer Abdul-Rahman bin Abdel-Mohsen Al Fadhli would head his country’s side.
The delegation of Sudan to the meeting comprises representatives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Agriculture and International Cooperation besides other ministries and government departments.
The official spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Ghariballah Khidir, said that the joint ministerial committee would discuss the issues of bilateral cooperation in all political and economic fields, especially in the domains of dams, water, electricity, animal resources, health, education and other fields.
He pointed out that convening the Sudanese-Saudi Arabian Business Forum would coincide with the session of the joint ministerial committee, which would be attended by Chairman of the Saudi side in the joint businessmen council Shiekh Salih Al Kamal and from the Sudanese side the State Minister at the Ministry of Investment Osama Faisal and head of the Sudanese side at the businessmen council Saud Elberair.
Meanwhile, State Minister at the Ministry of Investment Usama Faisal told (SMC) that the strategic understandings particularly in the fields of dams, agriculture and economy are for the benefit of the two peoples noting that Saudi Arabia has played a huge role in supporting development projects via its investments in Sudan.
For his part the Saudi Ambassador to Khartoum. Ali Bin Hassan said the meetings of the joint ministerial committee represent an extension to the developed relations between Khartoum and Riyadh noting that the Kingdom is keen on advancement of the Saudi Sudanese relations and pushing them forward to wider prospects in the light of the discrete leaderships.