Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah holds talks with US Sen. Joseph Lieberman in Riyadh on Monday. (SPA
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah held wide-ranging talks with US Sen. Joseph Lieberman, chairman of the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, here at Al-Yamamah Palace yesterday.
The talks between King Abdullah and the visiting US senator focused “on key bilateral and regional issues” with a keen desire to strengthen ties and forge common positions to deal with new challenges facing the region and the world at large.
King Abdullah and Lieberman reviewed a number of issues, said an SPA report published yesterday. “The visit of Lieberman, who heads the US Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee responsible for assuring the efficiency and effectiveness of the US federal government, is also said to be some sort of farewell call to Saudi officials,” said a reliable source, who preferred to remain anonymous. He was referring to Lieberman’s Senate term ending this year.
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by the way, this is Joseph Lieberman, US senator, and not Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s Foreign Minister (who wants to drown all Arabs in the Dead Sea)… a cousin may be?