Prince Saud Al-Faisal, the Foreign Minister, welcomed the Kingdom's guests to the Counter-terrorism International Conference currently in progress in Riyadh and welcomed Arab, Islamic and world mass media visiting the Kingdom for covering the Conference.
In his periodical press briefing held here today, Prince Saud said that the Conference will be a tributary to the International efforts, as the Crown Prince indicated, aim at adopting a collective program against terrorism through the crystallization of wide efforts of the world community notably the affected countries to exchange opinions and experience and to come out with practical recommendations and effective proposals to combat this dangerous scourge.
He added that the Kingdom is at war with terrorism and those who support or justify it and will continue its war until it uproots this evil, noting that the Kingdom is ready to share its experience with others and to benefit from theirs.
On the Conference, Prince Saud said that four committees have been formed to discuss working papers of the countries participating in the conference on thought of terrorism and its roots; relation between terrorism and drugs, smuggling and money laundering; experience of countries and their benefited lessons and terrorist organizations and ways of eradicating them.
He indicated that a daily press briefing will be held after the end of the evening session of the Conference's General Assembly to shed light on the conference's deliberations.
Responding to questions by journalists, he said one of the most important reasons for holding this conference is to see how to activate the international anti-terrorism measures.
On calls by US president to Saudi Arabia and Egypt to take democratic measures, he said that friendly countries exchange advice, adding that when "we advise the United States of America to change their foreign policy toward the Middle East, is there any harm to the relations. I don't think the US president said anything that harms or injures us. He expressed hopes and wishes and we express hopes and wishes."
