Both leaders met and discussed bilateral issues between Saudi Arabia and the US and issues affecting regional stability.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef has met with United States Secretary of State John Kerry in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

Both leaders met and discussed bilateral issues between Saudi Arabia and the US. They also discussed issues affecting regional stability.

Prince Abdullah bin Faisal bin Turki, Saudi Ambassador to the US, also attended the meeting.

Earlier on Monday, the Saudi crown prince spoke on the refugee crisis and said the kingdom ranked as the third country worldwide in terms of providing humanitarian relief and development assistance, having provided over the past four decades about $139bln in aid.

“Saudi Arabia deals with this issue based on the principles of the Islamic religion, which calls for Islam and peace and it is keen to help the needy,” he said.

Kerry on Syria

“We have not had seven days of calm and of delivery of humanitarian goods,” Kerry told reporters on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. Those seven days of calm and aid deliveries were required before the US and Russia could embark on a plan to cooperate in targeting ISIS and al-Qaeda affiliates working in Syria.

He denounced the Syrian military declaration of an end of a ceasefire, but also suggested that Russia was partly to blame.

“It would be good if they didn’t talk first to the press but if they talked to the people who are actually negotiating this,” he said.

“As I said yesterday, (it’s) time to end the grandstanding and time to do the real work of delivering on the humanitarian goods that are necessary for access.”

Both leaders met and discussed bilateral issues between Saudi Arabia and the US and issues affecting regional stability.

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