Visits by ministers from Saudi Arabia to UK

This file concerns ministerial visits from Saudi Arabia to the UK, from June 1975 to January 1976. It contains correspondence relating to:

• An invitation to the Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Saud Bin Faisal Al Saud to visit the UK
• Arrangements for the visit of a delegation led by the Saudi Minister of Education Dr Hasan Aal Al Sheikh to visit the UK to discuss cooperation in the field of education
• Plans for a meeting between the Saudi Minister of Petroleum Sheikh Ahmad Zaki Yamani and the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs James Callaghan, with a brief on sounding out Sheikh Yamani on the prospects for the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) meeting in Gabon, and his attitude to US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's proposals for the resumption of the producer-consumer dialogue
• The approval of the UK-Saudi Arabian Agreement on Cultural and Technical Cooperation
• A background note on British attempts to win business in Saudi Arabian university projects
• A dinner to be given by Foreign Minister David Ennals for Prince Saud, with a tentative guest list and a background note on the Prince
• Anglo-Saudi cooperation in the Arabian Peninsula, and the dispatch of a joint team to Dhofar
• The implementation of the Sinai Disengagement Agreement between Egypt and Israel
• A meeting between Prince Saud and Ennals covering the proposed visit of the Saudi Crown Prince Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, Anglo-Saudi cooperation on the Arabian Peninsula, the Arab-Israeli conflict, oil prices, and consumer-producer relations
• A request from Professor Glyn Davies to Callaghan to ascertain whether he would be willing to make an approach to Sheikh Yamani of Saudi Arabia to find out if the latter would accept an invitation to deliver the Jane Hodge Memorial Lecture at Cardiff
• A proposed visit by the new Saudi Minister of Health Dr Hussein Al Jezairi to the UK
• Arrangements for a visit by the Director General of the Saudi General Organisation for Social Insurance Sayyed Ibrahim Al Zaid, and the program for his stay in London from 3 to 9 December 1975