Thu. Mar 28th, 2024
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends a session of the Shura Council in Riyadh

Saudi Arabia crown prince Mohammed bin Salman has officially on Thursday, offered country’s full support to Iraq’s Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi for Iraq’s security over a phone call conversations.

Since the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, the two countries have been at loggerheads. This call conversation was the latest indications of efforts to improve their diplomatic relations, which has begun with the reopening of Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Baghdad in 2016.

According to Reuters news reports, in an official statement, the prime minister office wrote: “His Highness … expressed … full support of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for Iraq and its support for its permanent security and prosperity.”

The Saudi Arabian government was seeking Baghdad as a part of combined efforts with the US (United States) in order to stem the growing regional influence of Iran, while Iraq was seeking economic benefits from a closer tie with Riyadh.

The released PM Abdul Mahdi’s office statement said the Iraqi leader has welcomed the “development of relations” between the two countries.

In October 2017, just before two months when Iraq declared victory over the Islamic State, both the nations have established the Iraqi-Saudi Coordination Council in order to help to reconstruct the devastated region and areas retaken from the Islamic militants in Iraq.

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