{"id":20732,"date":"2024-05-27T09:38:58","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T09:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=20732"},"modified":"2024-05-27T09:38:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T09:38:58","slug":"saudi-arabia-appoints-first-ambassador-to-syria-in-over-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/05\/saudi-arabia-appoints-first-ambassador-to-syria-in-over-a-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia appoints first ambassador to Syria in over a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA (SW) &#8211; On Sunday, May 26, Saudi Arabia has appointed its first ambassador to Syria in over 12 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) announced that Faisal bin Saud Al-Mujfel has been appointed as the new Saudi ambassador to Damascus.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the first Saudi ambassadorial appointment to Syria since the closure of the Saudi embassy in Damascus in 2012 during the Syrian civil war.<\/p>\n<p>Faisal bin Saud Al-Mujfel expressed his gratitude to King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud for their trust in selecting him for this role.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized his commitment to serving Saudi Arabia&#8217;s interests and strengthening bilateral relations.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Saudi Arabia reopened its embassy in Damascus after more than a decade of severed diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n<p>In a reciprocal move, Syria resumed its diplomatic mission in Saudi Arabia last year and appointed a new ambassador to Riyadh in December.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA (SW) &#8211; On Sunday, May 26, Saudi Arabia has appointed its first ambassador to Syria in over 12 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":20735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,372,976,194,982,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-region","category-politics","category-world","category-international","category-headline"],"views":42,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20736,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20732\/revisions\/20736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}