Canada, Saudi Arabia name new ambassadors in move to restore full diplomatic ties – National | 24CA News
Canada will restore full diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Ottawa introduced Wednesday.
The transfer comes after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with Saudi Prince Mohammed Bin Salman on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) discussion board in Bangkok final November.
A push to normalize ties with Saudi Arabia follows a blow-up of relations in 2018.
Saudi Arabia recalled its ambassador and instituted a ban on commerce between the nations after Canada’s embassy in Riyadh issued a tweet in Arabic urging the discharge of ladies’s rights activists held within the nation.
As Global News reported on the time from tons of of pages of emails and memos launched via entry to info legal guidelines, the following diplomatic feud left Canadian officers reeling and scrambling to make sense of the Saudi response.
That occasion preceded the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which was extensively condemned by Canada and different Western international locations.
Jean-Philippe Linteau, previously Canada’s consul basic in Dubai, will function ambassador to Saudi Arabia, in accordance with an announcement from Global Affairs Canada.
— with information from Reuters
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