RIYADH: The Supervisor General of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center met with Sudan’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia on Monday, Saudi Press Agency reported.
During the meeting, Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah and Adel Bashir Hassan Bashir discussed humanitarian and relief issues of mutual interest, as well as the progress of humanitarian and relief projects implemented by KSrelief in Sudan and ways to improve them.
KSrelief recently launched a voluntary medical project in Nyala, Sudan to combat blindness and the diseases that cause it.
The KSrelief volunteer medical team examined 4,000 cases, performed 441 surgeries, and distributed 1,750 eyeglasses as part of the project.
Bashir praised KSrelief for its significant international humanitarian role and its ongoing work in assisting countries and peoples in need without discrimination.
KSrelief chief meets with Sudan’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia
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KSrelief chief meets with Sudan’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia
- Bashir praised KSrelief for its significant international humanitarian role
Saudi Arabia welcomes ceasefire agreement between Syrian Democratic Forces and Syria state
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has welcomed an agreement between the Syrian state and Syrian Democratic Forces.
In a foreign ministry statement early on Monday, the Kingdom said it had welcomed an deal between Damascus and Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces that was announced by the Syrian government on Sunday.
The agreement entails merging all SDF forces into the defense and interior ministries and means that Kurdish forces will redeploy to east of the Euphrates river.
The 14-point deal would also see the immediate administrative and military handover of Deir Ezzor and Raqqa governorates.
The Syrian state would regain control of all border crossings, oil fields, and gas fields in the region, with protection secured by regular forces to ensure the return of resources to the Syrian government, while considering the special case of Kurdish areas, the state news agency SANA reported.
The ceasefire comes after intense fighting between the SDF and government troops in Aleppo. But SDF troops have now pulled back from there and the Syrian army now controls most areas east of Aleppo.
The Saudi foreign ministry statement also thanked the US for the agreement. Washington is believed to have supported brokering the ceasefire between allies SDF and the Syrian government, who they have also backed diplomatically since the fall of long-time dictator Bashar Assad.
The Syrian state announced on Friday a raft of new directives to recognize Syrian Kurds, including making their language official and bolstering other rights for the minority group.
