Crown Prince and defence minister Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) met British defence secretary Michael Fallon in mid-September in Jeddah. They signed a framework agreement on military and security co-operation at a meeting attended on the Saudi side by assistant defence minister Mohammed Al-Ayash, the head of MBS’s office Fahd Al-Issa and deputy chief of general staff Fayyad Al-Ruwaili. In other Saudi-British meetings, ambassador to the US Prince Khalid Bin Salman met British foreign secretary Boris Johnson on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.
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