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JEDDAH: Women can now join Saudi Arabia s armed forces, following a ruling by the Saudi Ministry of Defense that opened the way for both genders to sign up through a unified admission portal starting Sunday.
Military ranks from soldier to sergeant will be available in the Saudi Arabian Army, Royal Saudi Air Defense, Royal Saudi Navy, Royal Saudi Strategic Missile Force, and Armed Forces Medical Services.
All applicants must pass admission procedures according to specified conditions, have a clean record and be medically fit for service. But some additional criteria have been added for female applicants.
Saudi female applicants must be between the age of 21 and 40 years old, have a height of 155 cm or taller, and cannot be a government employee. Female submissions must also hold an independent national identity card and have at least a high school education. Applicants married to non-Saudi citizens will not be accepted.
Ahmed Jaber Al-Faifi is the senior vice president of SAP Middle East and North Africa region.
Al-Faifi is responsible for SAP’s presence and growth strategy, and his duties include sales, marketing and overall operations for the region.
As senior vice president and managing director, Al-Faifi successfully positioned SAP as an innovation business leader while leading a growth plan for Saudi Arabia, one of SAP’s most important strategic markets.
Among his many achievements, Al-Faifi led the opening of SAP’s first public cloud data centers in the Kingdom, in a bid to accelerate digital transformation across various government entities.
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RIYADH: The signing of the landmark Riyadh Declaration during the visit of Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to Riyadh in 2010 raised the bilateral relationship between India and the Kingdom to a strategic partnership. The partnership covers security, economic, defense, and political areas and was perhaps the starting point in structured bilateral defense cooperation between India and Saudi Arabia.
Bilateral defense ties gained further momentum following the visit of then-Defense Minister A.K. Antony to Riyadh in February 2012, the first visit by an Indian defense minister to Saudi Arabia.
During the visit, the two sides decided to establish a Joint Committee on Defense Cooperation (JCDC), which would identify areas for cooperation in the field of defense. The JCDC held four meetings in 2012, 2016, 2017 and 2019 during which fruitful discussions were held on training and capacity building, intelligence exchange, maritime security, and the promotion of defense industries.