By Manal Abdel Fattah
The Kingdom’s Permanent Representative to the League of Arab States, Ambassador Abdulaziz bin Abdullah Al-Matar, received at the delegation’s headquarters today the Speaker of the Arab Parliament, Adel bin Abdulrahman Al-Asoumi.
During the reception, the existing cooperation between the Kingdom and the Arab Parliament in the parliamentary field was reviewed, and topics of common interest were discussed.
In another context, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Nations stressed the importance of harmony between countries and working together to stop land degradation around the world. In order to live on one land.
This came during a dialogue session held within the ceremony organized by the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture, on the occasion of the signing of the agreement to host the Kingdom of the sixteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (COP 16) next December in Riyadh.
The Undersecretary for the Environment, Dr. Osama Faqiha, and the Deputy Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Andrea Mesa Murillo, participated in the session, which was entitled “The Road to Riyadh COP 16,” along with the CEO of the National Center of Meteorology, Dr. Ayman Ghulam.