Tehran - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday
that his first state visit to Saudi Arabia has been fruitful and the
two Islamic states agreed to jointly fight what he called
'conspiracies' against the Islamic world.
Talking to state-run Iranian TV on his return from Riyadh, he said
the two states discussed the latest developments in Iraq, Lebanon and
the Palestinian areas and vowed to increase efforts for unity within
the Islamic world and blocking discord among Islamic sects.
Ahmadinejad has several times accused the West, chiefly the United
States, of seeking to sow discord between Shiite and Sunni Muslims in
order to strengthen its own status and that of Israel in the Middle
East.
The Iranian president had visited Saudi Arabia on Saturday,
holding his first meeting with Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz in
Riyadh.
Afterwards, Ahmadinejad said that Iran and Saudi Arabia
wereobliged to help meet the needs of the Islamic world.
'Iran and Saudi Arabia are two great and powerful Islamic
countries and accordingly have numerous mutual obligations and
responsibilities in the Islamic world and Middle East,' he said in a
statement on the website of the Iranian presidential office.
The Iranian website quoted Abdullah as saying that Saudi Arabia is
the 'second home country for Iranians.'
'Today, the Islamic world has many enemies who want to sow discord
between the two countries, but our two nations are Muslims with a
united belief and therefore enjoying good relations,' Abdullah said.
Ahmadinejad was received by the Saudi monarch and Prince Bandar
bin Sultan, secretary general of the National Security Council, who
is known to be close to the Bush administration in Washington.
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