Saudi Human Rights improve – West okay with selling King Abdullah nukes

cd editor: Obviously the United States and greedy bastards in the West think King Abdullah is doing a fine job on Human Rights. It doesn’t seem the victim of a public beheading in Saudi Arabia, condemned to death in the streets, will have much to say on the matter. Surely with this kind of event, a casual occurrence, we can all rest easy that King Abdullah won’t be about building nukes and use them to kill witches or terrorists?

Saudi Arabia to spend $100bn on 16 nuclear plants
SIDI 2012 News – December 2011

Saudi Arabia will spend more than $100 billion to establish 16 nuclear energy plants in different parts of the country within the next few years, Commerce and Industry Minister Abdullah Zainal Alireza told a Saudi-US business forum in Atlanta.

He made this comment while talking about the Kingdom’s efforts to develop solar and other renewable energy technologies to reduce dependence on oil and gas.

“We have allocated $3 billion to produce solar energy panels in Jubail and Yanbu,” he added.

Alireza said Saudi imports from the US are expected to cross $95 billion or 23 percent of the total US exports to Arab countries by 2012.

“This amount is expected to double by 2015,” the minister said while highlighting the significance of Saudi Arabia as a big market in the Middle East.

“This goes in line with President Barack Obama’s initiative for increasing US exports and creating 2 million new jobs for the Americans,” he added.

Alireza emphasized the strong, historic relations between Saudi Arabia and the US and hoped the Atlanta forum would contribute to strengthening the Saudi-US partnership. The US received 95 percent of the total Saudi exports to North America valued at SR124.68 billion in 2010, a statistical report issued by the Ministry of Economy and Planning said.

“Saudi Arabia and the US should complement one another and integrate their strong points to build a value-added relationship,” the minister said.

“There are good prospects to expand these relations covering all economic sectors with the support of the two leaderships,” he added.

Education Minister Prince Faisal bin Abdullah led an impressive 250-member Saudi delegation to the forum, including government officials and business leaders.

The forum, which concluded on Wednesday, discussed new investment opportunities worth $385 billion in the Kingdom in the key sectors of education, energy, electricity and water, transport and logistics, petrochemicals and infrastructure.

In his keynote address, Alireza said Saudi-US relations are based on mutual values and respect.

He emphasized the need to develop an institutional cooperation to take bilateral ties to new heights.

He underscored Saudi Arabia’s position as the largest economy in the Middle East and a key member of the G-20.

Massive public investment, rapid private-sector growth and new sector initiatives are driving an expansion projected to offer more than $1 trillion in trade and investment opportunities over the next decade.

He said the economic and judicial reforms introduced by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah were instrumental in boosting the Kingdom’s economy and attracting foreign investment. According to the World Bank’s “Doing Business 2012: Doing Business in a More Transparent World” report released in October 2011, Saudi Arabia ranked as the 12th most business-friendly country out of 183 economies worldwide and led the Middle East region on the list.