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Riyadh

The first meeting of the Qatar-Saudi Coordination Council’s Committee of Culture, Tourism and Entertainment convened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Monday.

Minister of Culture HE Sheikh Abdulrahman bin Hamad Al Thani, chair of the Qatar-Saudi Coordination Council’s Committee of Culture, Tourism and Entertainment on the Qatari side, and Minister of Culture of Saudi Arabia HH Prince Badr bin Abdullah bin Farhan Al Saud, chair of the Qatar-Saudi Coordination Council’s Committee of Culture, Tourism and Entertainment on the Saudi side, co-chaired the meeting.

During the meeting, they discussed the ongoing work between the two sides at the working group level, the achievements of the Culture, Tourism and Entertainment Committee and emphasised the importance of completing work on the committees approved initiatives under the council’s umbrella.

They also reviewed the initiatives and specific targets of the committee in its cultural, tourism and entertainment fields to come up with a number of recommendations that contribute to raising the level of cooperation between the two countries.

The Minister of Culture, accompanied by his Saudi counterpart, toured the Riyadh International Book Fair and visited Qatar’s pavilion participating in the exhibition, where Qatar is the guest of honour at the exhibition. The two ministers viewed the books, contents and rare manuscripts in the Qatari pavilion.

The ministers also toured the exhibition, where they viewed the participating publishing houses and the books they displayed in various fields.

The Qatari minister said Qatar’s participation as the guest of honour for this edition embodies the cultural relations between the two countries, as the exhibition is an international cultural event and one of the key platforms that consolidate the cultural movement in the region.

He praised the efforts of Saudi Arabia in supporting Gulf and Arab culture.

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