Saudi Arabia Participates in Chemical-Weapons Prohibition Meeting in the Netherlands

Saudi Arabia took part in the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) executive council meeting held in The Hague, Netherlands.
Saudi Arabia took part in the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) executive council meeting held in The Hague, Netherlands.
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Saudi Arabia Participates in Chemical-Weapons Prohibition Meeting in the Netherlands

Saudi Arabia took part in the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) executive council meeting held in The Hague, Netherlands.
Saudi Arabia took part in the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) executive council meeting held in The Hague, Netherlands.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia took part in the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) executive council meeting held in The Hague, Netherlands, SPA said on Thursday.
Saudi ambassador to the Netherlands and the Kingdom’s permanent representative to the OPCW, Ziyad Al-Attiyah, read the Kingdom’s statement to the meeting which runs through March 8.
He underscored the Kingdom’s unwavering position that calls for enhancing international cooperation in the prohibition of all kinds of weapons of mass destruction.
He reiterated its position that the use of chemical weapons and toxic chemicals under any circumstances is reprehensible and a violation of the provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention and the established basic rule of international law.



Syria’s Leader Meets with Bahraini Diplomatic Delegation

The leader of Syria's new administration, Ahmed al-Sharaa meets Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdul Latif Al-Zayani in Damascus, Syria, January 8, 2025. (Bahrain News Agency/Handout via Reuters)
The leader of Syria's new administration, Ahmed al-Sharaa meets Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdul Latif Al-Zayani in Damascus, Syria, January 8, 2025. (Bahrain News Agency/Handout via Reuters)
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Syria’s Leader Meets with Bahraini Diplomatic Delegation

The leader of Syria's new administration, Ahmed al-Sharaa meets Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdul Latif Al-Zayani in Damascus, Syria, January 8, 2025. (Bahrain News Agency/Handout via Reuters)
The leader of Syria's new administration, Ahmed al-Sharaa meets Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdul Latif Al-Zayani in Damascus, Syria, January 8, 2025. (Bahrain News Agency/Handout via Reuters)

Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa received a delegation from Bahrain on Wednesday and met with the Bahraini foreign minister, state media reported.

The visit was the latest in a flurry of diplomatic overtures by Arab countries to Syria’s new leaders after they overthrew former President Bashar al-Assad in a lightning rebel offensive.

Like other Gulf countries, Bahrain had cut off diplomatic ties with Syria under Assad’s rule during the Syrian civil war, but it reopened its embassy in Damascus in 2018 and gradually restored ties with the Assad government.

Bahrain is the current head of the Arab summit, and days after Assad’s ouster it had sent a message to al-Sharaa offering its cooperation with the new authorities and saying, “We look forward to Syria regaining its authentic role in the Arab League.”