RIYADH: Saudi Arabia announced yesterday it was sending a delegation to Iraq ahead of opening an embassy in Baghdad where its last mission closed nearly 25 years ago.
A foreign ministry statement said yesterday that the delegation would “take decisions to choose and equip buildings” for an embassy in Baghdad and a consulate in Arbil, capital of the autonomous Kurdistan region in the north.
Diplomatic ties between both countries were severed in 1990 but restored in 2004 after the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime.
Last November, Iraqi President Fuad Masum visited Saudi Arabia for the first such high-level trip in years in a sign of warming ties.
AFP
