MANAMA, October 7 (RIA Novosti) - The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is looking for a suitable place to open an embassy in Baghdad, 24 years after the last embassy closed, Saudi newspaper Al-Watan reported Tuesday, citing the Information Department of the Saudi Foreign Ministry.
"The service concerned alongside the Iraqi authorities are still looking for a suitable place to set up our embassy in Baghdad," Osama Nugali, the head of the Information Department of the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said.
Early in September, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Faisal announced the plans to reopen a Saudi embassy in Iraq, following talks with his Iraqi counterpart Ibrahim Jaafari. The Saudi side has not specified any time frame for the reopening.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia closed its Embassy in Baghdad in 1990, following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. It was not until 2012, that Baghdad named its first post Gulf-war non-resident Ambassador to Iraq.
