RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Health Fahad Al-Jalajel will head the Kingdom’s delegation at the 76th World Health Assembly at the UN headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Saturday.
The 76th session, which begins on Sunday and continues until May 30, will be held under the theme “WHO at 75: Saving lives, Driving Health for All,” and will discuss several issues related to global health.
A series of strategic round tables will be held with the participation of health ministers from around the world, delegates and experts from WHO, partner agencies and civil society, to discuss current and future priorities for public health issues of global importance.
The session comes following a declaration from the WHO on May 5 that the COVID-19 pandemic emergency health situation had ended.
The Kingdom demonstrated outstanding success in addressing the pandemic and overcoming its repercussions, and it became a model for many countries in effective crisis management and health preservation.
This was achieved due to the unlimited support of the Saudi leadership and the Kingdom Vision 2030, which drew a road map and early on to transform the health sector and had a direct impact on addressing the pandemic through qualitative initiatives and projects.
These included digital health transformation, expanding service provision, establishing the Public Health Authority, the Crisis and Emergency Center, and other initiatives related to the health sector transformation program.
Health minister heads Saudi delegation to 76th World Health Assembly in Geneva
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Health minister heads Saudi delegation to 76th World Health Assembly in Geneva
Saudi, Pakistan defense chiefs discuss ‘measures needed to halt’ Iranian attacks on Kingdom
RIYADH: Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman and Pakistan’s Chief of Defense Forces Asim Munir discussed Iran’s attacks on the Kingdom, amid the escalating military conflict in the Middle East.
“We discussed Iranian attacks on the Kingdom and the measures needed to halt them within the framework of our Joint Strategic Defense Agreement,” Prince Khalid wrote on social media early on Saturday.
“We stressed that such actions undermine regional security and stability and expressed hope that the Iranian side will exercise wisdom and avoid miscalculation.”
The US and Israel began a large-scale military campaign against Iran on Feb. 28. Iran has since attacked a number of sites across the Gulf.
Tehran has also attacked US and Israeli military assets as the war as escalated, impacting lives in the peaceful Arabian Gulf peninsula and risked shaking the global economy as Iran continued restricting energy shipping along the Strait of Hormuz.
The Saudi Defense Ministry said a number of drones had been shot down that were targeting the Shayba oil field in the Empty Quarter on Saturday.
A drone attacked the US embassy in Riyadh on Tuesday causing a minor fire, but no one was hurt in the incident.
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed a “Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement” in September, pledging that aggression against one country would be treated as an attack on both.
Separately, Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud bin Naif, the Saudi interior minister, received a call from his Pakistani counterpart Raza Naqvi, who condemned the blatant attacks targeting the Kingdom and affirmed his country’s solidarity in confronting any threats to the Kingdom’s security and stability, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Saturday.
