The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd bin Abdulaziz chaired the cabinet's weekly session at Al-Yamamah palace in Riyadh on Monday.
At the outset of the session, the monarch briefed the Cabinet on the outcomes of talks, consultations and meetings held over the previous days with a number of officials and envoys of leaders of fraternal and friendly countries on the latest developments in the region and the world.
The King reaffirmed the Kingdom's commitment to eradicating terrorism and fighting the deviant group.
King Fahd commended security men for their professional handling of such events, their care for protection of citizens' lives and the wiping out of the deviant aggressors with minimum loss.
In a statement to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) following the session, Iyad bin Amin Madani, the Minister of Culture and Information, said that the Cabinet condemned the terrorist acts which have taken place in Lebanon and the latest explosion in Matten region.
The Kingdom urged that stability, security, cooperation, understanding and national unity among various classes prevail over Lebanon.
The Minister of Culture and Information reported that the Cabinet then reviewed the local items on its agenda and issued the following decisions:
The Cabinet instructed the concerned authorities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to carry out a resolution taken by the 23rd GCC summit held in Doha, Qatar, on 17-18 Shawal 1423 H. calling for equal treatment by the GCC respective governments of citizens of the GCC member states in several fields. The decision covers the fields of owning and circulating stocks and setting up stock companies and eliminating all kinds of restrictions that might hinder the above; the same applies to the field of social insurance and retirement and national sectors and elimination of restrictions that might hinder the above.
The Cabinet also authorized the Minister of Commerce and Industry to issue a regulation for the protection of secret commercial information, including the penalties for applied to violators as per approval of the Doha summit. Accordingly, the Saudi concerned authorities were assigned to enforce the decision, in coordination with the relevant bodies.
The Cabinet approved the appointment of Abdulaziz bin Salman bin Shabeeb as Legal Consultant at the General Presidency for Religious Research and Ifta; Abdullah bin Abdulkareem bin Abdulaziz Aleesa as Assistant Undersecretary for Security Affairs at the Ministry of Interior; and Mohammed bin Abdullah bin Bigairan Alsibai'ee as Assistant Undersecretary for Laboratories Affairs at the Ministry of Health.
The Cabinet also approved the transfer of Fahd bin Abdullah Alzuhair from the post of Director General of the Hajj Minister's office to the post of Director General of the Madina branch of the Ministry of Hajj; and the transfer of Dr. Abdulwahab bin Abdullah Baghdadi from his current post of Assistant Undersecretary for External Information at the Ministry of Culture and Information to the post of Director General for the Minister's office at the Ministry of Hajj.
