61. Saudi Arabia - Government saudi arabia government. Country name - conventional long formKingdom of saudi arabia - conventional short form saudi arabia http://www.exxun.com/eegv/gv_Saudi_Arabia.html

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62. The Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia Directory of news and information covering the government, economy, education, and the media.Category Regional Middle East saudi arabia Guides and Directories...... Categories. http://www.mideastinfo.com/saudi.htm

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63. AME Info - Country Guides - Source: World Fact Book Literacy definition age 15 and over can read and write total population 62.8%male 71.5% female 50.2% (1995 est.). saudi arabia, government, Top of Page. http://www.ameinfo.com/1/g/11/

You are receiving this message because you need to upgrade your browser or have disabled JavaScript. Monday, April 7 The ultimate Middle East business resource Site Navigation AME Info Main Page AME Info FN Main Page Daily News Wires Company News Finance and Economy Energy, Oil and Gas Telecom, Internet and IT ... Travel and Leisure Financial Markets Arab Stock Indices Arabian Top 100 Credit Suisse Weekly HSBC Currency Weekly ... German Trade Review Business Extra Business Features E-Business Focus on CRM Company Profiles ... Financial Planning Industry Focus Arabian Environment e-security Executive Education Workplace Solutions ... Public Relations Additional Services AME Info Networking Online Parcel Tracking Broadcast Services Currency Converter ... AME Info - Country Guides Saudi Arabia Introduction Geography People Government ... Transnational Issues Saudi Arabia Introduction Top of Page Background: In 1902 Abdul al-Aziz Ibn SAUD captured Riyadh and set out on a 30-year campaign to unify the Arabian peninsula. In the 1930s, the discovery of oil transformed the country. Following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, Saudi Arabia accepted the Kuwaiti royal family and 400,000 refugees while allowing Western and Arab troops to deploy on its soil for the liberation of Kuwait the following year. A burgeoning population, aquifer depletion, and an economy largely dependent on petroleum output and prices are all major governmental concerns.

64. Committee On Government Reform for media representatives to accompany a Congressional delegation to the Kingdomof saudi arabia. I was very disappointed that your government rejected the http://www.house.gov/reform/saudiarabia.htm

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65. New Battlefield: The Saudi Arabia Files The government of saudi arabia continues to investigate the bombing inJune 1996 of the Khobar Towers US housing facility near Dhahran. http://www.msnbc.com/modules/new_battlefield/saudiarabia.asp

MSN Home My MSN Hotmail Search ... Money Military branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard National Guard, Tribal levies, Frontier Force, Primary military equipment Ground forces: More than 300 M1A2 Abrams tanks; about 290 older French AMX-30 tanks; about 2,800 armored personnel carriers, half of them U.S. Bradleys; 300-plus heavy artillery pieces. Sea power: Eight missile frigates (former French and U.S.); nine small missile patrol boats. Air power: Some 530 combat aircraft, including 165 U.S. F-15s of various types, 90 British Tornado, 60 older U.S. F-5E; assorted transport, electronic jamming and tanker aircraft. Military expenditures: $18.1 billion, fiscal year 1997 Military expenditures, percent of gross domestic product: 12 percent, fiscal year 1997 Foreign bases in the country: The United States does not "own" or have sole custody of any military facilities in Saudi Arabia. It has regular and rotational forces at the following joint U.S.-Saudi bases: King Fahd Air Base, Dhahran; King Abdul-Aziz Air Base, Dhahran; Jeddah; Khamis Mushayt; Prince Sultan Air Base, Al Kharj; Eskan Village, Riyadh; Riyadh Air Base; army bases at Tabuk and Taif. Military manpower Age of service: Military manpower, availability:

66. The Country & People Of Saudi Arabia Comprehensive, categorized list of sites about the kingdom covering a wide range of topics.Category Regional Middle East saudi arabia Guides and Directories...... PoliSci Almanac Facts figures, executive, legislative, judicial, government, parties,economy, diplomacy About saudi arabia * Business * Culture * Education http://www.hejleh.com/countries/saudi.html

Saudi Arabia Special Arab Files This page contains links to sites in Saudi Arabia and Saudi Arabia related sites. For Middle East, North Africa, Arab and regional information visit Arab Countries Saudi Arabia History Arabia has been inhabited for thousands of years by nomadic Semitic tribes. With the birth (A.D. 570) of Muhammad, in Mecca, Arabia was briefly the center of Islam, but by the end of the 7th cent. the area was disunited. Modern Saudi Arabia owes its existence to Ibn Saud, an adherent of the puritanical Wahhabi Muslim sect. Beginning in 1902 he conquered the Nejd, Al Hasa, and Hejaz regions, and in 1932 he proclaimed himself king of a united Saudi Arabia. Oil was discovered in 1936; commercial production began in 1938. Ibn Saud died in 1953 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Saud. In 1964 Saud was deposed by Faisal, who secured (1974) an agreement giving the Saudis a 60% majority ownership of foreign oil concessions in their country. Under both monarchs, Saudi Arabia aided (1962–67) royalist forces against Egyptian-backed republican rebels in Yemen. In 1975 Faisal was assassinated; he was replaced by Khalid, who inaugurated a program of industrialization and social welfare. In the conflict with Israel, Saudi Arabia has generally supported the Arab states, although as a friend of the U.S. it is a somewhat moderating force. Its moderating influence has also been felt in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), in which it has acted to stabilize petroleum prices.

67. HRW World Report 1999: Saudi Arabia: Human Rights Developments Human Rights Developments The government of saudi arabia, an absolute monarchy,continued to violate a broad array of civil and political rights, allowing no http://www.hrw.org/worldreport99/mideast/saudi.html

Human Rights Developments Defending Human Rights The Role of the International Community Human Rights Developments The government of Saudi Arabia, an absolute monarchy, continued to violate a broad array of civil and political rights, allowing no criticism of the government, no political parties, nor any other potential challenges to its system of government. Arbitrary arrest, detention without trial, torture, and corporal and capital punishment remained the norm in both political and common criminal cases, with at least twenty-two executions and three judicial amputations of the hand carried out by mid-October. Human rights abuses were facilitated by the absence of an independent judiciary and the lack of public scrutiny by an elected representative body or a free press. Women continued to face institutionalized discrimination affecting their freedom of movement and association and their right to equality in employment and education. Muslim religious practices deemed heterodox by government-appointed Islamic scholars and all non-Muslim religious practices were banned and subject to criminal prosecution. In July the Philippines embassy in Riyadh reported that twelve Filipino nationals who had been detained in early June on charges of proselytizing and handing out bibles were deported to the Philippines. A Dutch citizen arrested at the same time was also deported. The Saudi government has not disseminated a penal code or code of criminal procedure, and only a limited number of laws existed in published form. The Saudi monarchy enjoyed broad powers, enabling the king to appoint and dismiss judges and to create special courts, undermining judicial independence. In addition, principles of Islamic law were subject to reinterpretation by government-appointed religious leaders. Judges enjoyed broad discretion in defining criminal offenses and setting punishments, which included severe floggings, amputations, and beheading, and in determining which witnesses would be called to testify. These factors encouraged arbitrariness in sentencing and allowed great scope for manipulation of the justice system by well-connected interested parties.

68. Human Rights Watch: Saudi Arabia Release saudi arabia Right of Peaceful Assembly Denied In a fresh reminder of itspoor human rights record, the government of saudi arabia has reiterated that http://www.hrw.org/mideast/saudiarabia.php

Africa Americas Asia Europe/Central Asia ... More... Saudi Arabia State Department Fails to Designate Partners as Violators of Religious Freedom The State Department named six countries, Burma, China, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Sudan to its list of "Countries of Particular Concern" under the International Religious Freedom Act. All were named in 2001, the last time the list was updated. Not named were such countries as Saudi Arabia, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, where the right to worship freely is systematically violated. March 5, 2003 Press Release New Survey Documents Global Repression U.S. Human Rights Leadership Faulted Global support for the war on terrorism is diminishing partly because the United States too often neglects human rights in its conduct of the war, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing its World Report 2003 January 14, 2003 Press Release Ask Saudi officials some tough questions Mysterious bombings Saudi Arabia's wink-and-nod approach to terrorism has rightly raised a critical storm in the United States. But the winking and nodding began almost a year before the terrorist attacks in September 2001, in the Saudi government's response to a series of mysterious bombings on its own soil. December 17, 2002 Commentary

69. Saudi Arabia Supreme Council of Justice * President Sheikh Abd alAziz bin Abdallah Bin Baz.Local government. Diplomacy. US Ambassador to saudi arabia Wyche Fowler, Jr. http://www.polisci.com/almanac/nations/nation/SA.htm

Last updated April 2001 New Data Nations of the World National Governments São Tomé and Príncipe ... Senegal Saudi Arabia General Name: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Location: Middle East Area: 830,000 sq.mi. Capital: Riyadh Independence: June 10, 1916 National Holiday: Unification of the Kingdom, September 23 (1932) Constitution: (none) Population: Ethnicity: Arab 90%, Afro-Asian 10% Languages: Arabic Religions: Muslim 100% click on map to enlarge Executive Monarch King Fahd (b. 1923) (6/13/1982): hereditary male Abdallah bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud Council of Ministers : appointed by the king Prime Minister King Fahd (b. 1923) Abdallah bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud Sultan bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud Abdallah bin Abd al-Aziz al-Muammar Muhammad bin Ali Fayiz Usama Jafar Faqih Dr. Nasir bin Muhammad al-Salum Sultan bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud Muhammad Ahmad al-Rashid Ibrahim Abd al-Aziz al-Asaf Saud al-Faysal bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud Dr. Usama bin Abd al-Majid Shubukshi Khalid bin Muhammad al-Angari Hashim bin Abdallah bin Hashim Yamani Fuad Abd al-Salam Farsi Nayif bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud Salih bin Abd al-Aziz bin Muhammad bin Ibrahim Shaykh Abdallah Muhammad Ibrahim Al al-Shaykh Ali bin Ibrahim Namla Muhammad bin Ibrahim al-Jarallah Ali Ibrahim Naimi Iyyad bin Amin Madani Khalid bin Muhammad Ghusaybi Khalid bin Muhammad Ghusaybi Mitib bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud Madani bin Abd al-Qadir al-Alaqi Dr. Ibrahim bin Muhammad al-Assaf

70. World Travel Guide - Saudi Arabia - History And Government World Travel Guide saudi arabia - History government - includes informationon the constitution and politics. WORLDTRAVELGUIDE.NET, http://www.travel-guide.com/data/sau/sau580.asp

OAS_sitepage = URL + '/MiddleEast/SaudiArabia/HistoryandGovernment'; WORLD TRAVEL GUIDE .NET GUIDES World Travel Guide World City Guide World Airport Guide World Cruise Guide ... World Weather TOOLS Holiday Brochures Mini Guide Online Bookstore World Clock ... Reservations APPENDICES How to Use This Guide Health Disabled Travellers Buddhism ... Travel Warnings LANGUAGES Deutsch Dutch Español Français ... Saudi Arabia History and Government History: The Arabian Peninsula was occupied by the Abyssinians before the sixth century AD. Around AD 576 they were driven out of the southern regions by the Persians, who made it a province of their empire. The year AD 622, which has been adopted as the beginning of the Muslim era, was significant for the flight of the Prophet Muhammad from his home town of Mecca to nearby Medina, where he organised his followers before launching a successful campaign to recapture Mecca. Many Arab tribes joined Muhammad before his death in 632 and afterwards the Muslims continued their expansion across the Arabian peninsula and into Syria, Mesopotamia (Iraq), Persia and westwards into Egypt and North Africa. The towns of Mecca and Medina, both of which were thriving cultural and commercial centres before and after Muhammad, are the holiest cities of Islam and the Saudis take the responsibility for protecting their integrity with the utmost seriousness. Arabia was absorbed into the Turkish Ottoman Empire during the 16th century, after the capture of Mecca by the Turks in 1517, but subsequent local rulers were allowed a great deal of autonomy. Under Turkish supervision, successive Sherifs of Mecca governed the territory of Hijaz, which covered the western part of the peninsula including the Red Sea coast as far south as Yemen, until the onset of World War I.

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72. 1Up Info > Saudi Arabia > Government And Politics In Saudi Arabia | Saudi Arabia Consequently, the government of saudi arabia perceived Iran as a majorthreat to both domestic tranquility and regional security. http://www.1upinfo.com/country-guide-study/saudi-arabia/saudi-arabia82.html

You are here 1Up Info Saudi Arabia History People ... News Search 1Up Info Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia Section > Government and Politics ABD AL AZIZ IBN ABD AR RAHMAN AL SAUD, who had begun conquering territory in the Arabian Peninsula in 1902, proclaimed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932. It was then, and remained sixty years later, the only nation to have been named after its ruling family. Fahd ibn Abd al Aziz Al Saud, who in 1992 had been ruling for ten years, was the fourth son of Abd al Aziz to become king since his father's death in 1953. Although the Al Saud kings ruled as absolute monarchs, their power was tempered by Islamic law (sharia) and by the custom of reaching consensus on political issues among the scores of direct adult male descendants of Abd al Aziz. Islam was a pervasive social and political force in Saudi Arabia. Because there was no separation of religion and state, the political role of religious scholars, or ulama, was second in importance to that of the ruling Al Saud family. The close association between the ulama, advocating the strict Islamic interpretations of Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab, and the Al Saud originated in the eighteenth century and provided the dynasty with its primary source of legitimacy. The ulama acted as a conservative force in maintaining the traditional social and political values that characterized Saudi Arabia in the early 1990s. Shia (see Glossary) Islam and began the process of normalizing relations with Tehran.

73. 1Up Info > Saudi Arabia > GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS In Saudi Arabia | Saudi Arabia saudi arabia. government AND POLITICS. government Absolute monarchy thatbased legitimacy on fundamentalist interpretation of Islamic law. http://www.1upinfo.com/country-guide-study/saudi-arabia/saudi-arabia5.html

You are here 1Up Info Saudi Arabia History People ... News Search 1Up Info Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS Government: Absolute monarchy that based legitimacy on fundamentalist interpretation of Islamic law. King head of state and head of government; no written constitution or elected legislature. Crown prince deputy prime minister; other royal family members headed important ministries and agencies. Political system highly centralized; judiciary and local officials appointed by king through Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Interior. Politics: Political parties, labor unions, and professional associations banned. Informal political activity centered around estimated 4,000 princes of Al Faisal branch of Al Saud ruling family. On important policy matters, king sought consensus among senior princes of major Al Saud clans. King also consulted senior ulama (religious scholars) of Al ash Shaykh family and leaders of main tribal families. Western-educated professional and technocratic elite had restricted influence through alliances with various Saudi princes. Foreign Relations: Founding member of United Nations (UN), League of Arab States, Organization of the Islamic Conference, and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Participated in UN specialized agencies, World Bank, Nonaligned Movement, Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, and Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries. Security, Arab nationalism, and Islam main foreign policy concerns. Objective to prevent radical Arab nationalist or radical Islamic movements from threatening stability of Arabian Peninsula. Most active Arab participant in war against Iraq, 1991. Historically had close ties with United States, despite differences over Israel. Closest regional allies fellow members of GCC and Egypt.

74. BBC NEWS | Technology | Saudis Block 2,000 Websites sites 16 May 02 Country profiles Country profile saudi arabia Internet linksThe movement for Islamic reform in arabia saudi government Documentation of http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2153312.stm

CATEGORIES TV RADIO COMMUNICATE ... INDEX SEARCH You are in: Technology News Front Page World UK ... Programmes SERVICES Daily E-mail News Ticker Mobile/PDAs Text Only ... Help EDITIONS Change to World Wednesday, 31 July, 2002, 09:09 GMT 10:09 UK Saudis block 2,000 websites Net use is catching on in Saudi Arabia By Alfred Hermida BBC News Online technology staff If you tried to look at Rolling Stone magazine on the web from Saudi Arabia, you would find that access has been denied. You would not have much luck either if you tried the American women's lifestyle site iVillage.com. These sites are among the 2,000 blocked by the Saudi Government, a Harvard Law School has found. Most of the blacklisted sites were sexually explicit or about religion. But also caught in the net were sites about women, health, drugs and pop culture. "We found blockage of quite a bit of content beyond political content and pornography," said Ben Edelman, one of the researchers behind the report. "We found the blocking of content about women's history or sites about bathing suits. So if you want to buy something to swim in, they seem to treat that as if it were pornographic in Saudi Arabia," Mr Edelman told the BBC programme Go Digital.

75. Saudi Arabia Internet Pages Aportal containing searchable directories of local business, hotels, embassies, companies, ISPs, cyber Category Regional Middle East Directories and Search Engines...... government agencies, embassies, government Health clinics, dentistry,hospitals Employment UAE MIddle East saudi arabia Lebanon. http://www.saudi-pages.com/

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76. Saudi Arabia - International Parental Child Abduction The government of saudi arabia has been known to issue international arrest warrantsagainst women who have taken their children from saudi arabia without the http://travel.state.gov/abduction_saudi.html

Saudi Arabia - International Parental Child Abduction The information in this circular relating to the legal requirements of specific foreign countries is provided for general information only. Questions involving interpretation of specific foreign laws should be addressed to foreign legal counsel. GENERAL INFORMATION: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is not a party to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, nor are there any international or bilateral treaties in force between Saudi Arabia and the United States dealing with international parental child abduction. American citizens who travel to Saudi Arabia are subject to the jurisdiction of Saudi courts, as well as to the country's laws and regulations. This holds true for all legal matters including child custody. Parents planning to travel with their children to Saudi Arabia should bear this in mind. CUSTODY DISPUTES: In Saudi Arabia, child custody is based on Islamic law. The primary concern of Saudi courts in deciding child custody cases is that the child be raised in accordance with the Islamic faith. Most custody disputes in Saudi Arabia are handled by the Islamic "Shari'a" courts. In rare cases, the Board of Grievances, a religious appeals court, has ruled on custody disputes. Saudi courts generally do not award custody of children to non-Saudi women. If the mother is an Arab Muslim, judges will usually not grant her custody of children unless she is residing in Saudi Arabia, or the father is not a Muslim. All Saudi citizens are considered to be Muslim.

77. Pravda.RU Saudi Arabia Denies U.S. Bases The government of saudi arabia is reported to have resisted the United States'requests to use US military bases located in the country's territory in any http://english.pravda.ru/usa/2001/09/22/15902.html

Say what you want! PRAVDA.Ru will hear you! Sep, 22 2001 In Russian Em Portugues Former USSR Top Stories ... About Pravda.RU:USA:More in detail Saudi Arabia Denies U.S. Bases The government of Saudi Arabia is reported to have resisted the United States' requests to use US military bases located in the country's territory in any future operation against terrorism. Saudi Arabia has also declined permission to use a command center located in one of the bases for command and control of air strikes, a move that could delay the whole operation by weeks, the Washington Post reported Saturday, citing unnamed defense sources. The newspaper wrote that US Secretary of State Colin L. Powell was frantically trying to persuade the Saudi government to reverse the stance and allow the use of the bases. Failing that, the United States would have to consider moving command and control facilities elsewhere, which takes quite a while, the Washington Post said. The paper acknowledged that official sources in Washington declined to confirm the reports obtained by the Washington Post. Greg Sullivan, a spokesman for the State Department's Near Eastern Affairs Bureau, denied knowledge of any dispute between the US and Saudi Arabia. "We've gotten everything we've asked for from the Saudis and we're very pleased with their cooperation," he said. Articles on the same subject on News.Google.Com:

78. Pravda.RU America Will 'Award' Saudi Arabia With Bombs And Missiles What about saudi arabia? The government of saudi arabia refused torender its territory to American Armed Forces for striking Iraq. http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/08/08/34113.html

Say what you want! PRAVDA.Ru will hear you! Aug, 08 2002 In Russian Em Portugues Former USSR Top Stories ... About Pravda.RU:Top Stories:More in detail America Will 'Award' Saudi Arabia with Bombs and Missiles Saudi Arabia refuses to render its bases to the USA for strikes against Iraq Blessed is he who believes that there will be no new war in the Persian Gulf. Saddam Hussein does not believe in his lucky star either. He is too smart to get into Bush and Blair’s traps, although he cannot run and hide forever. The President of Iraq appeared on national television on the anniversary of the end of the war between Iran and Iraq. Saddam was rather aggressive, as always. He claimed that Iraq is not afraid of the attack and it is ready for any incursion. Saddam drafted all of his people into the army to fight against American imperialism. In addition, he added that a war with the Arab world was doomed to failure, and those people who are threatening Arabs will remain in the dump of history. Iraq's “brother Arabs” applauded, of course, but not that vividly, waiting for Washington's reaction. The only country that was not afraid to grapple with the USA was Saudi Arabia, America’s major oil supplier, by the way. However, this is in the past already: the USA is no longer as willing to purchase oil from Saudi Arabia, and it does not like the pro-Palestinian position of the country’s administration either. Goodbye! The information that transpired on July 10th was very good proof of this. There was a report read in one of Pentagon’s structures, which contained several very harsh statements against Saudi Arabia. In particular, it was said that Saudi Arabia was not a friend, but an enemy of the USA, and that Washington should present an ultimatum to it:

79. >> Royal Embassy Of Saudi Arabia London - Profile Of Saudi Arabia - Government - Aziz Bin Abdul Rahman AlSaud on September 23, 1932, the Shari'ah (Islamic law)has been the pillar and source of saudi arabia's basic system of government. http://www.saudiembassy.org.uk/profile-of-saudia-arabia/government/introduction.

An Introduction The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a monarchy with a political system rooted in Islam's cherished traditions and rich culture. Its rules and regulations are governed by the Holy Qur'an and the Sunnah (teachings and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad) which call for peace justice, equality, consultation and respect for the rights of the individual. Since the beginning of the first Saudi state in the 18th century through the founding of the modern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by the late King Abdul Aziz Bin Abdul Rahman Al-Saud on September 23, 1932, the Shari'ah (Islamic law) has been the pillar and source of Saudi Arabia's basic system of government. It identifies the nature of the state, its goals and responsibilities, as well as the relationship between the government and its citizens. Recognising that his young nation would need to adapt to the changing times in order to thrive and prosper, King Abdul Aziz built the foundation for a constitutional regime, thus establishing a modern government where once tribal rulers had reigned. A royal decree in 1953 established Saudi Arabia's Council of Ministers. During the 1950s and 1960s, 20 government ministries were founded. The Council of Ministers in conjunction with the King, formed the executive and legislative branches of the government. This was the first step taken towards formalising the long-established Islamic system of popular consultation which has always been practiced by Saudi rulers. In the Majlis, weekly meetings which are open to all, members of the general public can approach the King and leaders at the local, provincial and national levels to discuss issues and raise grievances.

80. >> Royal Embassy Of Saudi Arabia London - Government Information - Profile Of Ki England, United Kingdom, embassy and consular information; current informationon saudi arabia including news, press releases, government, business, travel http://www.saudiembassy.org.uk/government-information/profile-of-king-fahd/the-r

The Reign of King Fahd Crown Prince Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz was proclaimed the fifth King of Saudi Arabia on June 13, 1982. In his investiture speech, King Fahd emphasised that his reign would be marked by great concern not only for the citizens of his dynamic nation, but also for the peoples of the world. "We are active, fellow countrymen, in the wider international sphere within the framework of the United Nations, its agencies and its committees," he said. "We are committed to the charter, we reinforce its endeavours...Our acts have reflected, and will continue to reflect, our sense of belonging to the world community." The Kingdom is a founding member of the United Nations, the League of Arab States, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). It is also a member of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and many other organisations. Saudi Arabia is also one of the world's top foreign aid donors.

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