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Sultan Qaboos Bin Said Al-Said travelled to Dubai on 23 October for talks with Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum.
Abdelrahman Bin Nasir returns from US; Salman Bin Abdelaziz: Still on holiday; Mishaal Bin Abdelaziz returns home; Khalid Bin Abdullah's Frankel victory
Heir apparent Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, together with state minister for internal affairs Sheikh Abdullah Bin Nasser Bin Khalifa Al-Thani, opened the 9th internal state security exhibition Milipol on 8 October
The family of the late Crown Prince Sultan Bin Abdelaziz are selling palaces and other assets in Morocco, as they resolve inheritance issues and reorient the Al-Sultan’s interests. Prince Sultan spent long periods in his Agadir palace before his death on 22 October 2011
Commodities giant Glencore and miner Xstrata have finally agreed terms for a long-anticipated merger, which was threatened in June by objections from Qatar Holding (QH), Xstrata’s second largest shareholder.
Saudi Arabia: Salman now abroad; Alwaleed Bin Talal in Paris; Turki Al-Faisal Romney address; Abdelaziz Bin Bandar standing down; Adila Bint Abdullah in India; Hadhlul Bin Abdelaziz funeral; Al-Saud marriages
Crown Prince Salman was in charge of the country for three weeks following King Abdullah Bin Abdelaziz’s departure to Morocco on 27 August for a private vacation.
Emir Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani used a speech of the UN General Assembly to reiterate his call for Arab intervention in Syria.
Foreign minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal, who is recuperating in Los Angeles after surgery, spoke to his US counterpart, Hillary Clinton, on 15 September, according to the official Saudi Press Agency.
King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa travelled to the UAE on 26 September on what the UAE state news agency described as a “private visit”.
Safinaz Nur, the mother of Prince Khalid Bin Saad Bin Abdelaziz, died in August, aged 85. Khalid’s father, Saad, who died in 1993, was the tenth son of King Abdelaziz.
Allegiance Commission chairman Prince Mishaal Bin Abdelaziz is apparently still in Europe after going to Geneva in late August (GSN 928/8). He had previously spent just one month in the Kingdom after visiting Switzerland in July and spending a month in New York on ‘special leave’.
King Abdullah Bin Abdelaziz returned to Saudi Arabia on 24 September following a month in Morocco on what the Saudi papers described as a “special holiday”.
Heir apparent Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani held talks in Doha on 18 September with Ismail Tello, vice chairman of the standing committee of China’s National People’s Congress.
UAE president and Abu Dhabi ruler Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan and Sharjah ruler Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohammed Al-Qasimi visited the UAE’s Olympic mission at the 2012 London Paralympic Games.
