كلمة سمو الوزير في منتدى سانت بيطرسبورغ 2026

[M182-02] · سمو وزير الطاقة (HRH the Minister of Energy) · التوقيت 00:00:29 · كلمة سمو الوزير في منتدى سانت بيطرسبورغ 2026 · 2026-06-04 · مشاهدة عند هذا التوقيت

Thank you very much on being invited for this occasion and for the fact that Saudi Arabia is being recognized as the guest of this event this year.

[M182-03] · سمو وزير الطاقة (HRH the Minister of Energy) · التوقيت 00:00:45 · كلمة سمو الوزير في منتدى سانت بيطرسبورغ 2026 · 2026-06-04 · مشاهدة عند هذا التوقيت

I guess all what you need to do is go to the exhibition hall and see the presence of Saudi Arabia in multifaceted ways. It's a relationship. Yes, it did start 100 years ago, but to be honest and candid about it, it went to a sleeping rest for quite some time until the time that President Putin came along and along with more to be candid, also about it that soon as King Salman became a King and Crown Prince Muhammad became the Crown Prince and the Prime Minister that this relationship had taken a different shape and a different altitude.

[M182-04] · سمو وزير الطاقة (HRH the Minister of Energy) · التوقيت 00:01:37 · كلمة سمو الوزير في منتدى سانت بيطرسبورغ 2026 · 2026-06-04 · مشاهدة عند هذا التوقيت

I believe one of the proud minutes of my career is an of my career is an event that Alexander and I but then I was not the Energy Minister at that time. I was actually the deputy minister where we spent couple of hours in the old Riyadh airport wondering about what we could do together in helping each other and helping others producers of all countries on how can we support each other in bringing more market stability whereby I we can congregate people on the notions of we have to have for stability to have to happen, we have to have energy security, affordability and sustainability.

[M182-05] · سمو وزير الطاقة (HRH the Minister of Energy) · التوقيت 00:02:40 · كلمة سمو الوزير في منتدى سانت بيطرسبورغ 2026 · 2026-06-04 · مشاهدة عند هذا التوقيت

Those two hours probably were the most valuable two hours for both of us to try to recognize what will be the right contours for working together.

[M182-06] · سمو وزير الطاقة (HRH the Minister of Energy) · التوقيت 00:02:53 · كلمة سمو الوزير في منتدى سانت بيطرسبورغ 2026 · 2026-06-04 · مشاهدة عند هذا التوقيت

That endeavor took us a year and a half for it to be fostered and developed, and based on that we went into a kind of a self-discovery if you could say of mutual discovery of what are our potentials and how do we see each other and how we can complement each other in many spheres.

[M182-07] · سمو وزير الطاقة (HRH the Minister of Energy) · التوقيت 00:03:25 · كلمة سمو الوزير في منتدى سانت بيطرسبورغ 2026 · 2026-06-04 · مشاهدة عند هذا التوقيت

That's why we have our joint committee had meeting it's been meeting the private sector yesterday and today we are going to be celebrating signing 30 different agreements in all sorts of spheres be it in education, to energy, to tourism, to industry and the more important part and actually, few months back we had our meeting there in Riyad 80 different agreements be it government to government or private sector.

[M182-08] · سمو وزير الطاقة (HRH the Minister of Energy) · التوقيت 00:04:05 · كلمة سمو الوزير في منتدى سانت بيطرسبورغ 2026 · 2026-06-04 · مشاهدة عند هذا التوقيت

I think this the status of what we're doing is that there is no limitation. There is no boundaries. There is no limitations. There is no boundaries to our bilateral relationship. And the more the private sector become more engaged with each other, the more they discover there are that there are quite a few opportunities for the private sector also to play a bigger and bigger role.

[M182-09] · سمو وزير الطاقة (HRH the Minister of Energy) · التوقيت 00:04:38 · كلمة سمو الوزير في منتدى سانت بيطرسبورغ 2026 · 2026-06-04 · مشاهدة عند هذا التوقيت

I think what we have been doing as a government is to try to bring about an atmosphere or an environment, congenial environment for these investments to happen, the last time we met in Riyadh, we celebrated that we allow the planes to go to have a direct flights between Saudi Arabia and Russia, look at how much the amount of tourism has been happening of Saudi tour in enjoying being in Russia and discovering Russia and reciprocally how so many Russians have been coming.

[M182-10] · سمو وزير الطاقة (HRH the Minister of Energy) · التوقيت 00:05:30 · كلمة سمو الوزير في منتدى سانت بيطرسبورغ 2026 · 2026-06-04 · مشاهدة عند هذا التوقيت

I have to say that I'm enjoying that other tool that we have created which is to have a visa exemptions for both. I enjoyed that privilege today, this is the first time I come to Russia without a visa. So, it makes both countries accessible to each other and the more we do in as two governments bilaterally in trying to bring about much more of the cohesive joint environment that we have to create for our private sector.

[M182-11] · سمو وزير الطاقة (HRH the Minister of Energy) · التوقيت 00:06:14 · كلمة سمو الوزير في منتدى سانت بيطرسبورغ 2026 · 2026-06-04 · مشاهدة عند هذا التوقيت

And the more people visit with each other, interact with each other, the more we will find more and more opportunities. We have to for not to forget that we are both an energy producing countries.

[M182-12] · سمو وزير الطاقة (HRH the Minister of Energy) · التوقيت 00:06:34 · كلمة سمو الوزير في منتدى سانت بيطرسبورغ 2026 · 2026-06-04 · مشاهدة عند هذا التوقيت

Each has its own strengths and the other has its own strength we see ourself in terms of hydro hydrocarbon that we are more endowed with oil, Russia is both oil but also primarily gas.

[M182-13] · سمو وزير الطاقة (HRH the Minister of Energy) · التوقيت 00:07:00 · كلمة سمو الوزير في منتدى سانت بيطرسبورغ 2026 · 2026-06-04 · مشاهدة عند هذا التوقيت

We believe strongly that the world needs every molecule of energy and not only molecule but even electron of energy, we both work diligently in making sure that not only we will be exporting all of the above but also we will be exporting electrons we will be engaged in it's a state of mind of how you perceive yourself vis-a-vis the others and is your mindset of being an energy producer or an oil producer or a gas producer.

[M182-14] · سمو وزير الطاقة (HRH the Minister of Energy) · التوقيت 00:07:48 · كلمة سمو الوزير في منتدى سانت بيطرسبورغ 2026 · 2026-06-04 · مشاهدة عند هذا التوقيت

We elected to be an energy producer that produce and export everything as long as it does make economic sense and I believe Russia have the same aspiration too.

[M182-15] · سمو وزير الطاقة (HRH the Minister of Energy) · التوقيت 00:08:03 · كلمة سمو الوزير في منتدى سانت بيطرسبورغ 2026 · 2026-06-04 · مشاهدة عند هذا التوقيت

Yes, Russia is going through some restrictions here and there. That doesn't make the case that this situation will persist for so long. Eventually, the role of Russia in being a predominant, Russia energy supplier is noticed, is been missing and people trying to overcome it by engaging in temporary tools, but that does not mean that people do not recognize Russia as a predominant energy producer which will demonstrate itself over the next few years.

[M182-16] · سمو وزير الطاقة (HRH the Minister of Energy) · التوقيت 00:08:52 · كلمة سمو الوزير في منتدى سانت بيطرسبورغ 2026 · 2026-06-04 · مشاهدة عند هذا التوقيت

I think what the situation we're going through now does make a point clear which is the word needs every molecule of energy and every form of stabilization to this energy industry because without energy security you will lose affordability, you will lose sustainability.

[M182-17] · سمو وزير الطاقة (HRH the Minister of Energy) · التوقيت 00:09:21 · كلمة سمو الوزير في منتدى سانت بيطرسبورغ 2026 · 2026-06-04 · مشاهدة عند هذا التوقيت

We certainly have an issue with what is going on because it is not allowing us to focus on what we want to focus on which is our vision 2030, to us this what is going on is a detraction from our and taking away our focus to something else, which is to be honest causing us a great deal of frustration because we ought to ourselves as Saudis, we owe to every Saudi citizen that no matter what severe situation we're going through, we have to challenge this environment and still continue attending to our own ambitions because we cannot forfeit the future of the forthcoming generations.

[M182-18] · سمو وزير الطاقة (HRH the Minister of Energy) · التوقيت 00:10:28 · كلمة سمو الوزير في منتدى سانت بيطرسبورغ 2026 · 2026-06-04 · مشاهدة عند هذا التوقيت

And I believe strongly that we have the confidence to demonstrate to people and to everywhere else that we have shall continue to be a resilient provider of energy at all circumstances.

[M182-19] · سمو وزير الطاقة (HRH the Minister of Energy) · التوقيت 00:10:52 · كلمة سمو الوزير في منتدى سانت بيطرسبورغ 2026 · 2026-06-04 · مشاهدة عند هذا التوقيت

So, in a way inadvertently although we don't we were not hoping to go through the situation but actually it just provided us with an opportunity to demonstrate our resilience, our capabilities, our competence not only in the energy side but also in infrastructure resilience in every aspect. Look at the Saudi Arabia how much supportive it has been to the whole world. I have to also if I take some about the time of our friends here you know just recently we've been going through two different things attending to the current situation as you know it with it all security and what have you but don't forget that we were managing a big massive event which Hajj , which by the way good amount of Russians came to Hajj to attend to their spiritual obligation., Hajj for us is probably the biggest event that we hold every year where every resource that you can think of has been deployed and with that we've been managing all of the above from energy, from transportation, from logistics, from security, from safety, uh, in any aspect. This Hajj this year is profoundly probably the most successful Hajj we've ever had, even with what has been going on with that region.

[M182-20] · سمو وزير الطاقة (HRH the Minister of Energy) · التوقيت 00:12:40 · كلمة سمو الوزير في منتدى سانت بيطرسبورغ 2026 · 2026-06-04 · مشاهدة عند هذا التوقيت

So, we have managed to convert a tragedy to become an opportunity for us to demonstrate our capability competence and resilience.

[M182-22] · سمو وزير الطاقة (HRH the Minister of Energy) · التوقيت 00:13:38 · كلمة سمو الوزير في منتدى سانت بيطرسبورغ 2026 · 2026-06-04 · مشاهدة عند هذا التوقيت

Well, I'm I will say one thing, you know, which is probably I established a record. I think I would like to own that record. So that's why I'm maintaining my calmness, because you know I as a minister I think you're recruited to be calm and you're not recruited to be panicking because when you panic you actually lose the narrative and you would probably notice and urge our friends in the media to check that in the midst of not probably definitely the biggest energy security crisis that this has world has ever seen.

[M182-23] · سمو وزير الطاقة (HRH the Minister of Energy) · التوقيت 00:14:28 · كلمة سمو الوزير في منتدى سانت بيطرسبورغ 2026 · 2026-06-04 · مشاهدة عند هذا التوقيت

I haven't uttered a single word and I intend to maintain that record simply because I believe being silent is a type of talking and for me to be silent is an admission, a humble admission of the fact that I don't know what will happen not tomorrow but even in half an hour time.

[M182-24] · سمو وزير الطاقة (HRH the Minister of Energy) · التوقيت 00:15:04 · كلمة سمو الوزير في منتدى سانت بيطرسبورغ 2026 · 2026-06-04 · مشاهدة عند هذا التوقيت

So, if you don't know what will be happening, you might as well be humble enough to say I don't know it and I'd rather preserve my self-respect and the respect that people may have for me. And this is the very core of the situation today.

[M182-25] · سمو وزير الطاقة (HRH the Minister of Energy) · التوقيت 00:15:29 · كلمة سمو الوزير في منتدى سانت بيطرسبورغ 2026 · 2026-06-04 · مشاهدة عند هذا التوقيت

There are so many moving parts, there are so many unknowns, there are things that you think it became a reality but then you wake up in the next morning and the reality is no longer a reality. it's a pipe dream or it is an imagined hope or wishful thinking. So, in this circumstances one would again rely on his sensibilities and say if you don't know it be silent and as I said earlier being silent is a form of talking. Thank you.