Saudi Arabia will hold a multinational meeting at national security councilors' level on August 5 to discuss ways to put an end to the Ukrainian crisis, the state-run Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said on Friday

US President Joe Biden has dispatched top officials to Saudi Arabia to explore the possibility of a Middle East security pact that would involve the Gulf state normalizing relations with Israel if the latter made concessions to Palestinians to uphold the possibility of a two-state solution, The New York Times reported on Thursday