ALGIERS- The minister of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad, Ahmed Attaf, co-chaired, with his Saudi counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah Al Saud Tuesday, in Jeddah, the fourth session of the Algerian-Saudi Political Consultations Commission, the ministry said in a statement.
The meeting, part of Attaf's official visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, focused on the ways and practical steps to enhance bilateral cooperation, with consultations and coordination on many political issues of common interest, mainly those on the agenda of the ministerial meeting ahead of the Arab Summit in Jeddah, to be held in three days, the statement said.
The works of the meeting wrapped up with the strengthening of the structural framework governing the bilateral relations through the signing, by the two officials, of an agreement on the creation of an Algerian-Saudi high council of coordination.
The council's main task is "to increase contacts and step up cooperation between the two countries, especially as it will receive special attention and be subjected to direct monitoring by the leaders of the two countries," the statement added.
The discussions were also an opportunity for the two delegations to "stress the commitment of both sides to intensify their efforts to increase the volume of trade and investments between the two countries in their best interests, according to the priorities that will be identified shortly by the two sides."
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