King Ibn Saud met with the U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on 14 February 1945 in a meeting which lasted three days.[42] The meeting took place on board of the USS Quincy at the Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal.[42][43] The meeting laid down the basis of the future relations between two countries.[44] In 1951, under a mutual defence agreement, the U.S. established a permanent U.S. Military Training Mission in the kingdom and agreed to provide training support in the use of weapons and other security-related services to the Saudi armed forces.