I don't believe the negative reports for one moment

David Rainger,

Business Development Manager, A&N Planet.

We have been coming here for about 10 years and we built our businesses up slowly . it is obviously the lead up to joining that is the improvement and the quality required is improving every year it is not going to affect, It is already affecting it, It is leading up to it now, so every visit that I make here, there is an expansion in the fabrication field and eventually there will be very little purchases outside of the kingdom every thing will be manufactured here. So, I have seen a change in these ten years, A tremendous change in the 10 years I've been visiting. Regarding the articles that are claiming that Saudi Arabia has a hostile culture or is not safe: I don't believe it, not for one moment, but I visit the kingdom and I understand what happens here and I know the people. What happens here is the same as what happens everywhere,

It is deferent here than Europe but it is not a problem I can understand that and I live with that, that is not a problem at all. I don't get too involved with my clients throughout the world, But the people that I do meet local here are being very friendly to me, we get on very well, and I don't have a problem at all.

*(12^th to 22^nd January 2004)