Relations between Saudi Arabia and Middle Eastern and Near Eastern countries

This file concerns Saudi Arabia's relations with the Middle East and regional affairs. It contains press cuttings and correspondence on:

• A translation of the Palestinian-Jordanian agreement reached on 11 February 1985 between King Hussein Bin Talal and Yasser Arafat, proposing a ‘framework’ for negotiating land-for-peace with Israel
• Visits by King Hussein to Saudi Arabia, to London, and to the US where he had talks with President Ronald Reagan
• Discussions on Saudi foreign policy between UK Ambassador P R H Wright and King Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud and the Foreign Minister Prince Saud Bin Faisal Al Saud
• A visit by King Fahd to Washington, DC and his meeting with President Reagan, with a joint communiqué
• Discussions between the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President Reagan
• A meeting between the Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar Bin Sultan Al Saud and Mrs Thatcher, and her statements at the White House and to parliament
• A meeting between Mrs Thatcher and King Fahd
• A meeting between the Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe and the US Secretary of State George Shultz
• Discussions between the Jordanian Minister of Court Adnan Abu Odeh and Minister of State Richard Luce; with a personality note on Mr Odeh
• A visit by Assistant Secretary of State Richard W Murphy to the Middle East
• US views on the peace process and Washington's relations with Israel
• The absence of Israeli flexibility on the peace process, demonstrated by the Foreign Minister Yitzak Shamir during a tour of UK and Europe
• A Saudi requirement for Egypt to renounce the Camp David Accord with Israel for the re-establishment of friendly relations
• Egyptian doubts concerning the stability of Saudi Arabia
• A visit by the Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati to Algeria and Libya
• Visits by Prince Saud to Iran; and by the Iranian Energy Minister Hasan Ghafuri and the Iranian envoy Dr Ardakani to Saudi Arabia
• Iranian complaints about Saudi administration of the Hajj
• Saudi efforts to mediate the Iran-Iraq war
• Saudi support for a military embargo of Iran, and hopes for arms supply to Iraq
• The mediation efforts of Saudi Arabia, of the Islamic Conference Organisation, Gambian President Dawda Jawara and Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada, and of the UN Secretary General
• A Ramadan truce between Iran and Iraq
• The construction of an oil pipeline spur, Saudi exports of Iraq oil and financial aid
• A visit by Crown Prince Abdulla Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud and his delegation to Damascus, France, Italy and Algeria
• A visit by the Kuwait's Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah to Damascus
• The views of Iraq’s Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz on the significance of Syria being the only remaining ‘true confrontation state’ in respect of Israel
• The Lebanese War and Israel’s withdrawal from Sidon
• Saudi financial support for Lebanon
• The release from his kidnap in Baalbek of the Saudi Consul Hussein Farrash; the alleged responsibility of Islamic Jihad
• A tour to settle intra-Arab disputes by the Arab League’s Chadli Klibi and the Saudi Foreign Minster
• The possibility of an Arab summit or an international conference
• A Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Riyadh
• The good relations between the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY) and Saudi Arabia and a visit by Prince Saud
• Oil strikes in the Yemen Arab Republic (YAR)
• Saudi relations with YAR, the level of financial support and the visits of the President Ali Abdulla Saleh and Prime Minister Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani to Saudi Arabia
• Algeria-Morocco tensions
• Visits by Saudi ministers to Libya and a surprise Hajj visit by Muammar Al Gaddafi
• A visit by the Sudanese Prime Minister Al Gazouly Dafallah and Saudi despatch of wheat to Sudan.

The file also includes some wider themes in US foreign policy, including arms control, east-west relations and trade.