Bahraini King Joins Saudi King in Launching Yanbu Project

On Tuesday, King Hamad bin Issa al-Khalifa of Bahrain arrived in Saudi Arabia’s Yanbu province to meet with the country’s King Abdullah. The two discussed ways to strengthen ties between their two kingdoms, as well as regional issues such as the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

But it appeared the Bahraini King was mainly in Yanbu to accompany the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques in launching the Yanbu Project, which aims to develop the western Saudi province into a more industrial area.

That started right away when King Hamad was welcomed by King Abdullah in Yanbu at the Prince Abdulmohsen bin Abdulaziz Airport. After their official greeting, the Saudi King unveiled a plaque which marked the opening of the project to expand the airport. King Hamad was right beside him during the ceremony.

King Abdullah went on to approve of a intergrated water desalination project, educational facilities, road and bridge projects, plus private and public industrial constructions – all totalling in the billions upon billions of Saudi Riyals.

King Hamad attended all these approval ceremonies, viewing descriptive plates of the projects along with King Abdullah.

Afterward, the two monarchs went to a banquet that was hosted by the royal authority of both Yanbu and Jubail, an eastern province in Saudi Arabia undergoing the same transforming as Yanbu.