Saudi aid chief courting Canadian co-operation

‘It is always easy to criticize when you are 5,000 miles away.’

Abdullah Al Rabeeah, the supervisor general of the Saudi government's new international aid agency, the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre, is in Canada seeking closer ties with Canada.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

September 28, 2016

The head of Saudi Arabia’s new international aid agency is in Ottawa this week to meet his Canadian counterparts and rub elbows with the press. Abdullah Al Rabeeah was scheduled to meet with Peter Boehm, Canada’s deputy minis...

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