RIYADH: SABIC and Mawhiba have signed a memorandum of understanding for cooperation to support and empower talented Saudi students in the Kingdom.
In its statement released on Thursday, Mawhiba said that in line with the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 to upgrade social capital through investment in education and training, SABIC and the Foundation of King Abdul Aziz and his Companions for Giftedness and Creativity (Mawhiba) on Wednesday inked a cooperation memorandum to empower creative Saudis with the right skills, through a joint program.
The program will provide comprehensive care for talented students, among many projects for national and strategic initiatives in the field of innovation.
Khaled Al-Sabti, Mawhiba secretary-general, signed the memorandum with Yousef Al-Binyan, SABIC vice chairman and executive president.
Speaking on the occasion, Al-Sabti said that such a deal will upgrade the partnership to a strategic level to achieve common goals. It also seeks to face economic cognitive challenges, and raise the quality of national competencies in the fields of science and technology, as well as in international scientific competitions.
He stressed the importance of the deal to realize the goals identified in Vision 2030. It will also support relevant national plans and rehabilitation of human resources and creative excellence. It will ensure strategic functions to support the needs and priorities of the national plans.
According to Al-Binyan, such cooperation is part of SABIC’s social responsibility toward citizens that focuses on the principles of sustainability in several areas, especially the field of education in science and technology. He also underlined the importance of investing in talent and creativity, and its eagerness to reflect this support on the ground.
He said this cooperation reflects part of the leadership’s vision in the field of investment in human resources in the Kingdom, to nurture talent and develop their knowledge and skills, and will embody the company’s comprehensive and strategic corporate social responsibility.
SABIC, Mawhiba join forces to empower youth
SABIC, Mawhiba join forces to empower youth
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.
