New Delhi, July 10 -- JEDDAH - Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney signed multiple memoranda of understanding with Saudi Arabia on Thursday and helped establish a bilateral coordination council with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, ending a two-day visit to Jeddah that was the first by a Canadian prime minister to the kingdom in 26 years.

The agreements covered mining cooperation, energy partnerships, artificial intelligence investment and skills development. Neither government disclosed specific financial figures, but the visit produced the creation of a Saudi-Canadian Coordination Council designed to give both sides a formal channel for economic exchanges that have until now been managed largely through trade associations rather than ...