Riyadh, January 01, 2022, SPA -- The Speaker of the Shura Council, Sheikh Dr. Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Ibrahim Al Al-Sheikh, will start tomorrow an official visit to the Kingdom of Bahrain, heading a delegation from the Shura Council, to meet with senior officials and hold official talks with the Speakers of the House of Representatives and the Shura Council in Bahrain. During the visit, which comes at an official invitation of the Speaker of the House of Representatives in the Kingdom of Bahrain, Fawzia bint Abdullah Zainal, the delegation will discuss several topics of common interest in various fields, aspects of parliamentary cooperation between the Saudi Shura Council and the House of Representatives and the Shura Council in Bahrain, and joint coordination in regional and international parliamentary affairs. Sheikh Dr. Al Al-Sheikh stressed that the visit comes in the context of the keenness and interest of the leaderships of the two countries to enhance cooperation between the Gulf legislative councils in general and between the Saudi Shura Council and the House of Representatives and the Shura Council in Bahrain in particular. The Speaker of the Shura Council reiterated that parliamentary relations are witnessing progress, translated in the mutual bilateral visits and the level of coordination between two sides, whether at the level of council presidencies or the level of members of the joint parliamentary committees, adding that the parliamentary cooperation between the two countries reflects both sides' keenness to push forward the aspects of cooperation to levels that match the aspirations of the leaderships of the two countries to achieve growth and prosperity for the two brotherly peoples. --SPA 18:43 LOCAL TIME 15:43 GMT 0016 www.spa.gov.sa/w1672595