Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to give television interview

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to give television interview

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will give an interview later tonight to local Saudi television. The interview will also be streamed on Al Arabiya English with English subtitles.

The Crown Prince will appear on the Liwan Al Mudaifer Show, and is expected to discuss developments in Saudi Arabia's ambitious Vision 2030 plan. It is the fifth anniversary of the plan, which aims to transform the Kingdom and prepare it for a post-hydrocarbon age.

Last month, the Crown Prince announced that the Kingdom will spend more in the next 10 years than it has done in the past 300 years as he announced a new program to strengthen public-private sector partnerships.

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During the announcement of the program, named Shareek, the Crown Prince added that the Kingdom's energy giant Aramco would lead investments in the private sector to the tune of 5 trillion riyals ($1.3 trillion) by 2030.

In January, the Crown Prince also announced the launch of "THE LINE,“ a new 170-kilometer (km) belt of hyper-connected communities, designed without cars or roads, in the city of NEOM. NEOM was first announced in 2017 and is positioned to become a