Spanish defence minister visits Riyadh for strategic agreement

Future strategic cooperation agreements in the field of defence between Spain and Saudi Arabia were the focus of the meetings which took place in Riyadh during the week-end between the Spanish Defence Minister, Pedro Moranés and his Saudi colleague, Prince Salman Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, King Abdala's brother. The news were reported by ministerial sources in a statement. In the past months, the Spanish government is negotiating a strategic agreements with the Saudi government aimed at completing the sale of 250 Leopard armoured tanks . The Spanish military industry allegedly is "in a reasonably good position" for the sale, as Moranes pointed out during a recent hearing at the Congress of Deputies. (ANSAmed)