Saudi embassy building choose from among 12 buildings in Baghdad
Saudi embassy building choose from among 12 buildings in Baghdad
12-01-2015 12:56 AM
Iraqi diplomatic sources announced the receipt of the Saudi delegation embassy building in Baghdad, inside the Green Zone, close to the US and British embassies; stressing that ‘the opening of the embassy marks the beginning of a security and political joint work between the two countries’.
A senior Iraqi official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that ‘the Saudi delegation headed by Abdul Rahman monthly chose the new embassy building among 12 buildings nominated them in advance, and had been in the field all’.
The official, who accompanied the Saudi delegation on his tour, which lasted for about a week in Baghdad, that ‘the delegation chose a candidate and his buildings located close to the US and British embassies, as well as a number of nearby Arab embassies’.
The official, who requested anonymity, that ‘it is hoped that the embassy is open within two months from now because of the need for building it agreed to the restoration and rehabilitation, will be covered by the Saudi authorities at their request is’.
Exchanged Baghdad and Riyadh closure of embassies between them in 1991, after the invasion of the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein of Kuwait system and the outbreak of the first Gulf War, before Iraq is in 2003 to re-open its embassy in Baghdad, without offering Arabia on the same step because of the strained relations between the two countries , after the receipt of Nuri al-Maliki as prime minister for political and tread ‘hostile’ from Arab and Gulf countries in particular.
He described the Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister, Bahaa al-Araji, the reopening of the Saudi embassy in Baghdad B’alhaddt important ‘.
They said, after his meeting with the Saudi delegation in Baghdad, ‘With all due respect to the rest of the countries, but the Saudi Embassy while opening is not just like any other embassies, due to the weight of the Saudi Arab, Islamic and moral Great’.
Observers considered the insistence of the Saudi authorities to open embassies in Baghdad, although the messages ‘terrorist’, sent by the organization ‘Islamic state’ (Daash) to Riyadh last week, marked the beginning of a deeper relationship with the new political order in Iraq.
, Saw a political science professor at the University of ‘Baghdad’, Laith Abdul Hamid that ‘Saudi presence will have a positive role in creating a balance between the requirements of the Sunni in Iraq and the Iranian interventions and consider it a great and important turning point’.
And in an interview with the new ‘Arab site’, that ‘the ball is now in the court of the Iraqi government, and should prove a good deal for the complete normalization of relations between Iraq and the Gulf fully in the coming period.’
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