Saudi FM to make landmark visit to occupied West Bank

AFP | Riyadh

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Prince Faisal bin Farhan will become the first Saudi foreign minister to visit the occupied West Bank tomorrow, a diplomatic source said.

The top Saudi diplomat will head a delegation to Ramallah, a Palestinian embassy source said, the first such trip since Israel first occupied the Palestinian territory in 1967.

“A ministerial delegation led by the minister of foreign affairs will go to Ramallah on Sunday,” the source told AFP.

Next month, Saudi Arabia and France will co-chair an international conference meant to resurrect the two-state solution at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Nearly 150 countries recognise the State of Palestine, which has observer status at the UN.