🔴 Saudi Arabia hosts international meeting to discuss establishing maritime defense coalition 🔴 Saudi Defense Ministry says 43 countries and EU delegation took part in meeting on p

🔴 Saudi Arabia hosts international meeting to discuss establishing maritime defense coalition 🔴 Saudi Defense Ministry says 43 countries and EU delegation took part in meeting on proposed maritime defense alliance 🔴 Ministry says participants discussed Kingdom being founding and leading state of proposed coalition and hosting its headquarters 🔴 Coalition to boost defense cooperation in Bab El-Mandeb Strait, Red Sea and Gulf of Aden 🔴 14 states issued joint statement supporting proposed coalition