Deliberate assembly comes after Saudi Arabia and Iran signed a landmark deal to revive ties after seven years of estrangement.
Iran and Saudi Arabia’s prime diplomats have agreed to satisfy earlier than the top of the holy month of Ramadan to implement a landmark bilateral reconciliation deal that was brokered by China.
Saudi International Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan and his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, made the choice after holding their second phone call in lower than every week, the official Saudi Press Company (SPA) reported on Monday.
“Throughout the name, plenty of frequent points had been mentioned in mild of the tripartite settlement that was signed within the Individuals’s Republic of China,” the SPA stated.
“The 2 ministers additionally agreed to carry a bilateral assembly between them through the ongoing month of Ramadan,” SPA stated.
The report didn’t specify the precise date or location of the assembly.
Ramadan started final week and ends within the third week of April.
Saudi officers have stated the assembly is the subsequent step in restoring ties seven years after they were severed.
Riyadh minimize relations after Iranian protesters attacked Saudi diplomatic missions in 2016 following the Saudi execution of Shia Muslim chief Nimr al-Nimr — only one in a sequence of flashpoints between the 2 longstanding regional rivals.
The deal is anticipated to see Shia-majority Iran and primarily Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia reopen their embassies and missions inside two months and implement safety and financial cooperation offers signed greater than 20 years in the past.
An Iranian official stated on March 19 that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi had favourably received an invite to go to Saudi Arabia from King Salman, although Riyadh has but to substantiate.
Amir-Abdollahian advised reporters the identical day that the 2 nations had agreed to carry a gathering between their prime diplomats and that three areas had been advised with out specifying which.
The detente between Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest crude oil exporter, and Iran, strongly at odds with Western governments over its nuclear actions, has the potential to reshape relations throughout a area characterised by turbulence for many years.