By ARAB NEWS

JEDDAH: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah on Monday instructed all government departments to implement the short-term and long-term plans he approved for creating jobs for the increasing number of Saudi graduates.

The new plans are expected to create at least 70,000 new jobs for Saudi women.

King Abdullah made this comment while presiding over the weekly Cabinet meeting, which also called for the establishment of more dual-purpose desalination plants along the Kingdom’s coasts to meet the country’s water and electricity needs.

The Cabinet added a new article to the Electricity Law that made cogeneration compulsory in desalination and electricity projects constructed on the Kingdom’s coasts or in areas close to the sea or in places where adequate amounts of underground saline water are available.

The Cabinet reiterated the government’s resolve to support programs aimed at improving the performance of public departments and agencies by promoting e-dealings, strengthening the performance measurement center, activating administrative development units, and empowering monitoring bodies.

The Kingdom expressed its deep sorrow over the growing violence in Yemen that had resulted in deaths and injuries and urged all Yemeni parties to maintain restraint and work to save the country from more violence and fighting, Culture and Information Minister Abdul Aziz Khoja said.