February 17, 1999

PRINCE SULTAN RECEIVES DELEGATION FROM THE COMOROS ISLANDS AND THE HEAD OF THE AMERICAN TRAINING MISSION. Prince Sultan Ibn Abdul Aziz Second Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defence and Aviation and Inspector General of Saudi Arabia received at his office in Riyadh the Haj Affairs delegation from the Comoros Islands headed by the Minister of Transport, Tourism and Communications Mustafa Sayyid Sheikh Al-Aidarus. The tone of the meeting was warm, and topics of mutual concern were discussed. The Ambassador of the Comoros Islands to Saudi Arabia Hamid Karhila also attended the meeting. Prince Sultan also received Major General John Marcillo, head of the American training mission in Saudi Arabia, as well as the training mission's Advisor on Arab Political Affairs Abdul Azim Qarman and its Public Relations Manager, Major Michael Iverson. Prince Sultan Ibn Abdul Aziz received the head of the board of directors of the French group Thompson, Dennis Rank, and the delegation accompanying him. He also received the Ukrainian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Yevzeni Vikitinko, and discussed with him issues of mutual interests.