Saudi Arabia's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs met his French counterpart in Riyadh on Sunday.
Adel Al Jubeir and Jean-Yves Le Drian reviewed bilateral relations and discussed ways to develop them further, state news reported.
Before the global Covid-19 pandemic, Saudi Arabian exports to France were worth more than $6 billion a year, while France exported $3.5 billion of goods to the kingdom.
The ministers also discussed regional and international issues of common interest.
The reception was attended by Saudi Arabia's Director-General of the Office of the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Cabinet Member Khalid bin Musaed Al Anqari, Ambassador to France Fahd bin Mayouf Al Ruwaili and the Director General of the General Department for European Countries at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sultan bin Khuzaym.
The French embassy tweeted a picture of the "warm and friendly" meeting and said it highlighted the "close strategic partnership between France and Saudi Arabia".
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received a phone call from French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday, according to the Saudi Foreign Ministry.
Saudi Minister of Investment Khalid bin Abdulaziz Al Falih paid an official visit to France on Thursday in an attempt to enhance investment and economic ties.
He said the kingdom's economy has "become open to national and foreign investments, at an unprecedented pace and size", according to the Saudi Press Agency. The aim is to provide investment opportunities in a variety of sectors.
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Who are the Sacklers?
The Sackler family is a transatlantic dynasty that owns Purdue Pharma, which manufactures and markets OxyContin, one of the drugs at the centre of America's opioids crisis. The family is well known for their generous philanthropy towards the world's top cultural institutions, including Guggenheim Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, Tate in Britain, Yale University and the Serpentine Gallery, to name a few. Two branches of the family control Purdue Pharma.
Isaac Sackler and Sophie Greenberg were Jewish immigrants who arrived in New York before the First World War. They had three sons. The first, Arthur, died before OxyContin was invented. The second, Mortimer, who died aged 93 in 2010, was a former chief executive of Purdue Pharma. The third, Raymond, died aged 97 in 2017 and was also a former chief executive of Purdue Pharma.
It was Arthur, a psychiatrist and pharmaceutical marketeer, who started the family business dynasty. He and his brothers bought a small company called Purdue Frederick; among their first products were laxatives and prescription earwax remover.
Arthur's branch of the family has not been involved in Purdue for many years and his daughter, Elizabeth, has spoken out against it, saying the company's role in America's drugs crisis is "morally abhorrent".
The lawsuits that were brought by the attorneys general of New York and Massachussetts named eight Sacklers. This includes Kathe, Mortimer, Richard, Jonathan and Ilene Sackler Lefcourt, who are all the children of either Mortimer or Raymond. Then there's Theresa Sackler, who is Mortimer senior's widow; Beverly, Raymond's widow; and David Sackler, Raymond's grandson.
Members of the Sackler family are rarely seen in public.
