Russian Governmental Committee for Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation held in Moscow and the two sides' underscoring the importance of promotion of trade and economic exchanges and investment cooperation to a level compatible with the great potentialities of the two countries, citing the signing of 15 agreements in different domains during the meetings. The Cabinet dealt with a number of domestic issues, emphasizing the Kingdom's continuing fight against terrorist acts and activities supporting them with various available means, following the statement issued by the Interior Ministry including the classification of names of leaders and activists of Hezbollah based on the history of their being held responsible for operations running in the benefit of the party throughout the Middle East in addition to other entities working as investment arms of the party who were targeted by the classification decision that targets their wicked activities crossing the border of Lebanon. The Cabinet welcomed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's achievement in the field of soaring non-oil exports which has pumped as much as SR200 billion due to the support and facilities provided by the State for businessmen and national companies, resulting in high quality and competitiveness of Saudi products that helped them to reach international markets. Dr. Adel bin Zaid Altoraifi said the Cabinet was briefed on the outcome of a number of conferences and symposia held in the Kingdom last week. The Cabinet discussed the issues on its agenda, including some in which the Shura Council has already studied and was briefed on the outcome of each of the Cabinet's General Committee and the Experts Bureau and decided the following: First: The Cabinet authorized the minister of justice or his deputy to sign a draft agreement on cooperation between the ministry of justice of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Federal Budget Foundation (government registration chamber) at the ministry of justice of Federal Republic of Russia, and forward the signed final version for completing legal procedures. Second: The Cabinet authorized the minister of finance or his deputy to sign a draft agreement on evading dual taxation and preventing taxation evasion on tax on income between the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and its attached protocol, and forward the signed final version for completing legal procedures. --More 15:25 LOCAL TIME 12:25 GMT تغريد
