The BBC: French President Nicholas Sarkozy will arrive in Riyadh later on Tuesday for a two-day visit to Saudi Arabia. Mr Sarkozy will spend the night at King Abdullah's desert ranch before attending bilateral talks on Wednesday. Officials say the trip is aimed at strengthening ties between the two men, but they are also set to discuss French bids for major Saudi arms contracts. Before leaving, Mr Sarkozy called for the urgent resumption of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. During the past eight days, he has held meetings at the Elysee Palace in Paris with the leaders of Iraq, Israel and Syria. He has also spoken by telephone with the Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, who will attend talks with French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner later in the Jordanian capital, Amman.
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The visit of about 24 hours--Sarkozy’s third to the kingdom in less than two years--is both low-key and high-intensity. Billed on both sides as more personal than public, there are no planned announcements or unveilings of joint agreements during the visit.
At the same time, Sarkozy will spend his overnight stay at Janadriya, King Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz’s desert ranch on Riyadh’s northern outskirts. There, the two leaders will be able to engage in candid, heart-to-heart conversations mostly by themselves without large entourages on either side.
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