Saudi Cabinet welcomes Ethiopian, Eritrean peace agreement

High Royal Highness King Salman chaired the Cabinet’s session at Al-Salam Palace in Jeddah on Tuesday.

The king briefed the Cabinet on the results of his meetings with Eritrea President Isaias Afwerki and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali to sign the Jeddah Peace Agreement.

King Salman expressed his congratulations to the two countries and said that he hoped the signing of the agreement would be a strong basis for closer cooperation and friendship, achieving security and stability, and would positively affect the security and stability of the region.

The king also congratulated Djibouti and Eritrea on their historic meeting in Jeddah — which came in response to his invitation — wishing the two countries further security, prosperity and stability.

The Cabinet applauded the endeavors of the two nations' leaders to reestablish relations between them to set up another phase that would see an awesome improvement in relations and further participation. 

The Cabinet praised the resolutions of the 150th common session of the Arab League's Council at the level of remote clergymen held in Cairo, and the announcement issued by the Arab Quartet Ministerial Committee hung on the sidelines of the 150th session of the Arab League's Council, on the line up of the emergency with Iran and approaches to address its obstruction in the inward undertakings of Arab nations.

The Cabinet featured the terrorism practiced by Iran through its interference in Arab affairs, which needs collaboration to face and deflect, repeating that the Kingdom has made efforts to combat terrorism and has not hesitated to provide support with the cooperation of the international community to address this.

The Cabinet expressed the Kingdom’s strong condemnation of the suicide bombings north of Tikrit in Iraq, the Somali capital of Mogadishu and Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan, expressing condolences to the families of the victims, the governments and peoples of Iraq, Somalia and Afghanistan.