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Iranian, Saudi FMs hold phone talks, agree to meet soon
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IANS | 23 Mar, 2023
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and his Saudi
counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud have agreed to meet at the
earliest opportunity to prepare the ground for the reopening of
embassies and consulate generals between the two countries, the Foreign
Ministry in Tehran announced on Thursday.
The two
Ministers discussed the issues in a phone call to congratulate each
other on the starting of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, Xinhua
news agency quoted the Ministry as saying.
The Saudi Foreign
Minister pointed to the positive achievements of the Beijing meeting, in
which the two countries signed an agreement on the normalisation of
ties after seven years, and highlighted the necessity of meeting his
Iranian counterpart in the near future and the reopening of the
embassies.
Meanwhile, Amir-Abdollahian expressed satisfaction
with the detente between Tehran and Riyadh, expressing Iran's readiness
to develop and strengthen bilateral relations.
China, Saudi
Arabia and Iran on March 10 announced that Riyadh and Tehran had reached
a deal that included the agreement to resume diplomatic relations and
reopen embassies and missions within two months.
On Sunday, Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud invited Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi to visit Riyadh.
Following
the agreement to restore diplomatic relations, the two nations also
announced they will reopen embassies within two months and re-establish
trade and security relations.
Saudi Arabia cut ties in January
2016 after demonstrators stormed its embassy in Tehran after Riyadh had
executed the prominent Shia Muslim cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, who was
convicted of terror-related offences.
Since then, tensions
between the Sunni- and Shia-led neighbours have often been high, with
each regarding the other as a threatening power seeking regional
dominance.
They have been on opposing sides of several regional conflicts, including the civil wars in Syria and Yemen.
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