The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud chaired the Cabinet s session at Al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh on Monday afternoon. At the outset of the session, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques briefed the Cabinet on the outcomes of his talks with President Mohammed Bukhari of Republic of Nigeria and Prince Frederik Henrik Andre, the Crown Prince of Kingdom of Denmark; the message sent to Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the Emir of State of Kuwait; and the telephone call received from President Vladimir Putin of Russian Federation. The Minister of Social Affairs and Acting Minister of Culture and Information Dr. Majed bin Abdullah Al-Qassabi said in a statement to Saudi Press Agency following the session that the Cabinet was briefed on a number of reports on latest developments at regional, Arab and international arenas, reconfirming the Kingdom s strong condemnation of terrorist bombings and attacks that took place in the republics of Cameroon, Somalia and Afghanistan, expressing the Kingdom s condolences to the families of the victims, governments and peoples of Somalia, Afghanistan and Cameroon and its wishes of a speedy recovery for injured people. The Cabinet expressed its thanks and appreciation to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, the Crown Prince and the Deputy Crown Prince for the state s attention to the homeland s citizens of martyrs of duty and their families, commending in this regard the Crown Prince s inauguration of the electronic board of the martyrs titled Loyalty to men sacrificed their lives for their homeland , his emphasis that the homeland will never forget its citizens martyred in defending it and its achievements, that all people are proud of the martyrs of duty who will be a source of pride of the homeland s leadership and people, and that their families and relatives enjoy continuing follow up from the rulers to meet their needs and overcome their difficulties. The Cabinet commended the Ministry of Interior for its keenness to speed up and complete the transformation to the electronic services for transferring to a new phase through which the Ministry provides services by Abshir integrated system and launches the application We are all security on mobile phones aiming to make citizens and residents a part of an interactive technological security system starting and ending with them. The Cabinet commended the security forces, customs and various agencies for their efforts to monitor, track down and prevent the attempts of smuggling drugs into the Kingdom, arrest those involved in their smuggling and recipients, and carry out their missions to protect the citizens of the homeland from the scourge of drugs, expressing its appreciation for the cooperation of security agencies in a number of Arab countries with its counterpart in the Kingdom in seizing smugglers and manufacturers of drugs. --More
