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Canada, Saudi Arabia resume full diplomatic ties after 5 years

MercoPress — Tue, 30 May 2023 20:54:44 +0000

Five years after Saudi Arabia expelled Canada’s ambassador from Riyadh over Ottawa’s remarks on women’s rights activists, both countries agreed Wednesday to restore full diplomatic relations, Global Affairs Canada (Canada’s foreign ministry – GAC) announced in a statement.

According to press reports, the meeting in November between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit was instrumental to this decision. “In light of what has been discussed between [Trudeau and bin Salman] … and the desire for both sides to restore diplomatic relations between the two countries on the basis of mutual respect and common interests, it has been decided to restore the level of diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia to its previous level,” the statement from GAC read.

In 2018, Saudi Arabia expelled Canada’s ambassador after GAC tweeted support for women’s rights activists -including Samar Badawi¬- who had been arrested. The Saudis also sold Canadian investments and ordered their citizens studying in Canada to leave. The activists have since been released.

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Source: https://en.mercopress.com/2023/05/25/canada-saudi-arabia-resume-full-diplomatic-ties-after-5-years

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China leaps into Saudi-Iran diplomacy as nuclear talks move

Andrew Parasiliti | AL-Monitor — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 23:09:45 +0000

Iranian official says next move on prisoner exchange depends on US.

It’s hard to understate the impact of resumed diplomatic ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia — and that it was China that made it happen.

China has until now had a business- and energy-first approach to the Middle East, preferring to abstain from the diplomatic and security charge held, mostly unchallenged, by the United States.

Not anymore.

A Saudi-Iran rapprochement is one for the diplomatic A team. It’s a major step to de-escalate the most critical fault line between the Gulf’s largest and most powerful countries. It opens the door to more progress to end the war in Yemen.

The agreement followed weeklong meetings between Saudi national security adviser Musaad Al-Aiban and his Iranian counterpart Ali Shamkhani, mediated by Wang Yi of the Chinese Communist Party’s Political Bureau. Iraq and Oman had sponsored earlier talks between Iranian and Saudi officials.

It all happens the week the US released its “Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community,” in which China has the starring role as global adversary number one, and as the Chinese People’s Congress gave Xi Jinping an unprecedented third term as president.

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Source: https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/03/china-leaps-saudi-iran-diplomacy-nuclear-talks-move#ixzz7vbCXUoV5

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