Arabic → English transcript

Never? With Saudi Arabia?

Never, never. Were there messages? Were there, for example, verbal disputes?

Never, no, this… this is an assumption. An assumption. I went to Saudi Arabia,

and in the meeting with the king— may God rest his soul— King Abdullah.

And I invited him and Saudi companies to invest in Iraq. He said to me,“ All right,

let me set up a meeting for you with the Chamber of Commerce of Riyadh.”

Yeah. And they actually held a meeting,

and I went and sat with all the businessmen…

… and I spoke with them and listened to their requests, they even asked me for……

the reconstruction of the Arar crossing to make movement,

goods, and transport easier.

And we really did establish the Arar crossing and paved the road and we invited

them to participate.