Saudi Arabia participates in preparations for Arab-Russian forum

Saudi Arabia’s permanent representative to the Arab League, Abdulaziz bin Abdullah Al-Matar, participated in the second Arab Coordination Meeting at Delegate Level at the bloc’s headquarters in Cairo to prepare for the sixth Arab-Russian Cooperation Forum next Wednesday in Marrakech.

The meeting was held under the joint chairmanship of the acting permanent representative of Morocco to the Arab League, Hicham Ould Sallay; Russian Ambassador to Egypt Georgy Borizenko; and Dr. Khaled Manzalawi, the bloc’s assistant secretary-general and head of its international political affairs sector.

The meeting was attended by the permanent delegates to the Arab League, the Saudi Press Agency reported.

Manzalawi said the preparatory meeting followed a consultation between the rotating Arab League president — Morocco — and the bloc’s General Secretariat to discuss arrangements for holding the Arab-Russian Cooperation Forum.

He stressed the importance of the forum given the weight of Russia’s role and its supportive positions on many Arab issues in international organizations, as well as to discuss the consolidation of Arab-Russian relations in the economic and cultural fields.