BFF-22 Saudi minister urges ‘decisive’ response to threats against energy supplies

348

ZCZC

BFF-22

GULF-SHIPPING-OIL-SAUDI

Saudi minister urges ‘decisive’ response to threats against energy
supplies

RIYADH, June 15, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Saudi Arabia’s energy minister called
for a “swift and decisive” response to threats against energy supplies,
following twin attacks on tankers in a vital Gulf shipping channel.

“There must be a swift and decisive response to the threat against energy
supplies… created by the recent terrorist acts in the Arabian Gulf,” Energy
Minister Khalid al-Falih said in Japan, according to the ministry’s Twitter
page.

BSS/AFP/ARS/1917 hr