Prince Naif chairs Hajj meeting
Prince Naif bin Abdulaziz, the Minister of Interior and Chairman of Hajj Supreme Committee, chaired here today the Committee's first meeting this year.
The Committee's members are Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs; the Foreign Minister; Governor of Makkah Region; Assistant Minister of Interior for Security Affairs; Governor of Madinah Region; General President of Grand Mosque and Prophet's Mosque Affairs; Minister of Culture and Information; Minister of Finance; Minister of Hajj; Minister of Economy and Planning; Minister of Health; Minister of Transport; Minister of Communications and Information Technology and Chairman of Audit and Investigation Commission.
At the outset of the meeting, Prince Naif stressed the keenness of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz and Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz, Deputy Premier, Minister of Defense and Aviation and Inspector General on steadily improvingthe services being annually provided for pilgrims and on benefiting from the experience of the previous years to exert more efforts to achieve better standards of services for pilgrims, visitors of the prophet's Mosque and Umrah performers.
Prince Naif also laid stress on enabling pilgrims to perform their rituals easily, peacefully and securely and on returning safely to their countries.
Then the members reviewed the results of the Investigation Committee formed following the collapse of a building in Makkah, the studies of the concerned bodies to determine the cause of a stampede in Jamarat area and the proposed solutions to prevent its repetition. The Committee also discussed items on its agenda relating to Hajj and pilgrims' affairs.
The meeting was attended by Dr. Saed Al-Urabi Al-Harethi, Advisor to the Interior Minister.