Crown Prince Salman, deputy premier and minister of defense, held talks with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro at his palace here on Sunday.

The talks focused on enhancing bilateral relations in various fields, the declining oil prices, the Palestinian issue, the Syrian crisis, and fighting international terrorism.

Maduro, lauded the Kingdom’s achievement internally and globally under the wise leadership of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah and wished the king good health and long life.

The president arrived from Tehran Saturday night at King Khaled International Airport accompanied by a number of ministers.

He was received at the airport by Prince Muqrin, deputy crown prince and second deputy premier, Riyadh Gov. Prince Turki bin Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz and Venezuelan Ambassador to Riyadh Joseba Achutegui.

Maduro left Riyadh for Qatar from where he will fly to Algeria on his way back home.

Maduro has visited the Kingdom three times, the first two times as his country’s foreign minister — one to attend an OPEC meeting in Riyadh in 2007 and the other on an official visit in 2010.