Russia supports Saudi efforts to bust terrorist ring : Kamynin

Moscow, Apr 28 (UNI) Russia today backed Saudi Arabia's resolute efforts to fight terrorism.

''The resolute actions of the Saudi leadership to strengthen national security and stability and eradicate the terrorist network throughout its territory can be only welcomed," the official spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Mikhail Kamynin said. Kamynin was commenting on yesterday's arrest of 172 Saudi nationals, as well as people from other Arab and African states, on suspicion of belonging to a terrorist ring and planning large-scale terrorist acts against the country's oil and gas facilities. ''Russia regards the sweep operation as a weighty contribution to international anti-terrorism efforts," he said.

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