n Cabinet reaffirms its response to Bahrain's request for supportRIYADH: King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, reiterated Monday the Kingdom's “absolute rejection of any interference in its internal affairs”. Chairing the weekly Cabinet meeting Monday, King Abdullah said the Kingdom's foreign relations were based on “the principles of mutual respect and non-interference in domestic affairs”, with rules founded on “the Holy Qur'an and the Prophet's Sunnah to safeguard the security, stability and peace of Saudi society from sedition and divisions”. King Abdullah thanked Almighty Allah for “the blessings of security and stability and the strong relations between the Kingdom's people and their leadership”. The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques cited the statement from the 118th session of the GCC Ministerial Council in reaffirming the “total rejection of GCC states of any foreign attempt to interfere in their affairs, and their determination to deal firmly with any incitement to factional sympathies, promotion of divisions between the people of member states, and threats to security”. “Threats to harm the security of any member state are regarded as harming the security of all GCC states,” he said. King Abdullah lauded the “wisdom, loyalty and cohesion of the Kingdom with its leadership in good times and bad” since the country's unification by the late King Abdul Aziz. “It is, then, only to be expected that there would be no response to the attempts of the traiters because they know the objectives behind those false and wicked calls which have no relation to Islamic teachings,” King Abdullah said. He further expressed his gratitude to the people of the Kingdom for their “compliance with its constitution, the Book of Allah and the Prophet's Sunnah, and the true Islamic values and unity of their country”. In that regard, the Cabinet reaffirmed its response to Bahrain's request for support. Abdul Aziz Khoja, Minister of Culture and Information, said in a statement to SPA after the meeting that the King went on to brief ministers on his contacts of the past week concerning regional and international developments, including telephone calls from King Juan Carlos of Spain and Mauritanian President Muhammad Wald Abdul Aziz. Khoja said that ministers expressed the Kingdom's condolences to the Japanese Emperor Akihito and the Japanese people for their suffering in the recent earthquake. In domestic business, the Cabinet approved a recommendation by Crown Prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and Aviation, Inspector General and Chairman of the Ministerial Committee for Administrative Organization, to authorize the Saudi Food and Drug Authority to supervise all operations of water and ice production factories, issue them with technical licenses and draw up their required specifications. Ministers also reviewed scientific, cultural and socioeconomic activities of the past week, including the conference on municipal work opened by Prince Naif Bin Abdul Aziz, Second Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, and his patronages of the award ceremony for the King Faisal International Prize 2011 and the first Saudi Forum for Processing Industries.
