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• Should the U.N. Security Council have a Permanent Seat for Arab States?
  • November 11,2013

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  • SUSTG Team
   

  In the wake of Saudi Arabia’s decision to turn down a non-permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council, Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to the United Nations Abdallah Yahya A. Al-Mouallimi is calling for Arab states to be permanently represented on the U.N.’s most powerful body and for veto power to be eliminated. 

   
• SUSRIS Interviews Prince Turki Al Faisal on Recent Developments in the U.S.-Saudi Relationship
  • October 26,2013

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  • Lucien Zeigler
   

  Following his candor at the National Council on US-Arab Relations’ Policymakers Conference in Washington, our partner site SUSRIS features an exclusive interview with Prince Turki al Faisal.

   
• Saudi Ministry of Labor, Human Resources Development Fund to Sponsor Post-Doc at Harvard Kennedy School of Government
  • October 25,2013

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  • Lucien Zeigler
   

  Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Labor and the Saudi Human Resources Development Fund will sponsor a one-year postdoctoral study at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, according to an announcement submitted to SUSTG. The purpose of the sponsorship is to better understand the Saudi labor market. The accepted applicant will train as a research fellow at […]

   
• Meet Joseph W. Westphal, the U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
  • October 22,2013

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  • Lucien Zeigler
   

  Army Under Secretary Joseph W. Westphal, the second-highest ranking Army civilian, is the front-runner to be the next U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, according to a report. Al Kamen, who last week reported that outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia James. B. Smith is slated to join the Cohen Group, confirms in the Washington Post that Westphal is […]

   
• The Staying Power of Gulf Monarchies: Why the Middle East’s Monarchies Survived the Arab Spring
  • October 17,2013

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  • Lucien Zeigler
   

  In a report for the Brookings Center in Doha, F. Gregory Gause tackles the question: why have Gulf Monarchies showed staying power during the Arab Spring? The Gulf monarchies that “have been written off for decades as anachronisms” have outlasted many of their republican neighbors, Gause argues, because a combination of “hydrocarbon wealth and coalitions of […]

   
• How stable is Saudi Arabia? Five experts consider the question.
  • August 20,2013

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  • Richard Wilson
   

  Sada, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s online journal focusing on the Middle East, poses the question, Is Saudi Arabia Stable?, to five experts.  The responses look closely at trends that could threaten Saudi stability.  Though occasionally dire, they are generally thoughtful and the points of emphasis are varied.  They are also short and to the […]

   
• U.S.-Saudi Business Opportunities Forum Website, Registration Launched by Organizers
  • July 11,2013

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  • Lucien Zeigler
   

  Organizers of the upcoming U.S.-Saudi Business Opportunities Forum announced today a new website and live registration to the upcoming conference taking place September 16-18 in Los Angeles, California. The Saudi-US Trade Group (SUSTG) is pleased to be an organizer of the upcoming U.S.-Saudi Business Opportunities Forum to be held at the J.W. Marriott L.A. LIVE downtown. […]

   
• Foreign Worker Amnesty: Deadline Extended by Saudi King Abdullah to November 3
  • July 3,2013

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  • Lucien Zeigler
   

  Saudi Arabia has given foreign workers until November 3rd to obtain legal status in the country “a day before a previous three-month amnesty expired, bringing respite to hundreds of thousands of expatriates who fear deportation,” News 24 and other outlets report.  “Foreigners who do a different job to the one listed on their residence permit, […]

   
• PHOTOS: New Qasr Al Hokm Station in Saudi Arabia Will Have Green Atriums and Shopping
  • June 13,2013

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  • Lucien Zeigler
   

  Snohetta, a Norweigian firm, was recently selected as the designer for the downtown Qasr Al Hokm station in Saudi Arabia, which will be one of the main hubs of the new system, Torontoist reports.

   
• Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry Cracks Down on Counterfeits In Boost to Consumer Protection
  • June 10,2013

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  • Lucien Zeigler
   

  This week, Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MCI) issued a press release on the Ministry’s Web Site that authorities had seized over 6,000 counterfeit cellphones. Looking to send a message to would-be counterfeiters and violators of consumer protection regulations, MCI authorities placed the forged phones in a pile then drove over them all […]

   
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