For his part, the French foreign minister lauded the statement made by Al-Jubeir on the nature of relations between the two friendly countries. In this regard, he said that "we are on convergence of ideas with our Saudi friends as regards the regional issues", attributing the rapprochement of the two countries' approach and the serious political and economic cooperation to the real and effective partnership. Fabius confirmed that the Saudi French joint committee, co-chaired by Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, the Second Deputy Premier and Minister of Defense, and himself, meets every six months and is so far doing a good job, drawing the attention that the two parties are planning to announce, in a detailed statement, the results of the committee's work since its inception, hoping that the current meetings would yield good results in the best service of the two countries from the economic point of view, particularly that the French are pushing more and more to strengthen economic relations with the Kingdom. --More 20:29 LOCAL TIME 17:29 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w