Ali bin Ibrahim Al-Naimi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, who leads his country's delegation to the 13th Arab International Conference for Mineral Wealth and 5th Ministerial Meeting of the Arab ministers in charge of mineral wealth sector which kicked off in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh, today reassured that our Arab countries' territories are rich of geological environments that contain rocky components of different kinds of minerals, noting that the mineral investment in the Arab world has made great strides over the last few decades but is still in need to be moved to real mineral industrialization. Addressing the 5th Ministerial Meeting of the Arab ministers in charge of mineral wealth sector, Al-Naimi drew the attention of his listeners that to reach this end, we ought to develop a number of key aspects relating to mining activities in our countries, most important of which are: conducting a review of mineral investment systems, upgrading them, urging for establishing advanced manufacturing, creating new jobs, developing mineral data, provision of land lots, replacing imported products and supporting the manufacture of mineral products locally. Also we have to develop remote areas in our countries through mineral industries derived from mineral deposits found in those areas, building the necessary infrastructure, nationalizing the modern technology used in exploiting and processing the mineral resources and developing the technical skills of our labor forces in the sector of mining and other support services. --More 18:37 LOCAL TIME 15:37 GMT تغريد
