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GCC citizens to travel with ID

Saudi Arabia not to mediate alone, says Faisal

'Free movement a great success'

Saudi Arabia's stocks value rises 13% in January

Saudi Water and Electricity Minister Abdullah Al Hussain has estimated the total value of contracts for the GCC power grid at $3 billion (11 billion Saudi riyals).

Saudi Arabia's gross domestic product this year is expected to reach 1.0681 trillion Saudi riyals ($284.9 billion), a 13.71 per cent increase over last year's 939.6 billion riyals ($250.5 billion).

Saudi Arabia has managed to reduce its public debt from 614 billion Saudi riyals to less than 600 billion riyals this year, Finance Minister Dr Ebrahim Al Assaf announced yesterday.

The controversy surrounding Al Zulfi town, which is accused of encouraging deviant elements, took a new turn with the Saudi minister of education joining the issue.

The evaluation team of the Saudi ministry will keep a watch on imams and Friday sermon preachers, according to Shaikh Saleh Al Shaikh, the Minister of Islamic Affairs, Endowments, Propagation and Guidance.

Several eminent Saudi women, working in the kingdom and abroad, addressed various sessions of the three-day event, which ended on Monday.

Speaking to Gulf News, the sources said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has decided - as a first step - to appoint as many as 40 women as translators and political and economic analysts.

Speaking on the second day of the sixth Jeddah Economic Forum yesterday, Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi and Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, both stressed the importance of human capital development.