Saudi Arabia: Plans to reopen Baghdad embassy
Issue 977
- 19 Sep 2014
| 1 minute read
Saudi Arabia has said it plans to reopen its embassy in Iraq once the security situation improves. The foreign ministry made the announcement on 13 September following Prince Saud Al-Faisal’s talks with his Iraqi counterpart, Ibrahim Al-Jaafari, at a meeting in Jeddah between Arab states and US secretary of state John Kerry on how to tackle the threat of the Islamic State. But the ministry said Riyadh needed to resolve “technical, administrative and security” issues before it could re-establish the mission and assign an ambassador. Jaafari described the decision as “important and necessary.”
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