🔺Saudi Arabia’s defense minister spoke by phone with NATO’s secretary general and three Western defense ministers

▪ Prince Khalid bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s defense minister, spoke in four separate phone calls on Friday, 8 Aban, with NATO’s secretary general and the defense ministers of Germany, Canada, and Spain. The talks took place after the Houthis’ claims about attacks on airports and oil facilities across Saudi Arabia.

▪ In a post on X, Alison Hart, a NATO spokesperson, wrote that Mark Rutte, the NATO secretary general, and Prince Khalid “discussed the security situation in the Middle East, regional stability, and freedom of navigation.”

▪ According to Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Defense, the two sides reviewed aspects of military and defense cooperation and joint coordination regarding current developments in the region, to support regional and international security and stability.