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  • Syrian president heads to Saudi Arabia for regional summit, sealing country’s return to Arab fold

    Syrian President Bashar Assad headed to Saudi Arabia on Thursday to attend a regional summit, his first visit to the oil-rich kingdom since Syria’s conflict began in 2011, the president's office said. Assad's attendance at the Arab League summit, which starts Friday, is expected to seal Syria's return to the Arab fold following a 12-year suspension and open a new chapter of relations after more than a decade of tensions. The 22-member league, which is convening in the Saudi city of Jeddah, recently reinstated Syria and is now poised to welcome Assad, a long-time regional pariah, back into the fold. The Syrian president was officially invited to attend the summit last week.

  • Arab foreign ministers meet ahead of Arab League summit in Saudi Arabia

    Arab foreign ministers met Wednesday in Saudi Arabia ahead of the Arab League's annual summit in the kingdom to discuss the upcoming gathering's agenda and draft resolutions. This year's summit, starting Friday in the city of Jeddah, will mark the readmittance of war-torn Syria into the 22-member league, after a 12-year suspension. Syria's membership was frozen following Syrian President Bashar Assad's brutal crackdown on the 2011 mass protests against his rule. The country quickly descended into a brutal civil war that has killed nearly half a million people and displaced half of the country’s pre-war population of 23 million.

  • Syria’s Assad receives Saudi invitation to Arab summit

    Syrian President Bashar al-Assad received an invitation to next week's Arab summit in Saudi Arabia, the presidency said Wednesday, the first since his country's war began over a decade ago. The pan-Arab body had suspended Damascus in November 2011 over its crackdown on protests which spiralled into a conflict that has killed more than 500,000 people and displaced millions. On Sunday, the Arab League welcomed back Syria's government, securing Assad's return to the Arab fold after years of isolation.

  • Arab League readmits Syria, paving the way for Assad to attend Saudi summit

    Syria was readmitted to the Arab League on Sunday. The move marks a major milestone for the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad as it seeks to come in from the cold, resume normal relations and attract economic investments. The decision to readmit Syria after 12 years, was made at an Arab League emergency meeting in Cairo, less than two weeks before a summit in Saudi Arabia on May 19. With the admittance, Assad is now expected to attend the Riyadh summit. Further details, including how individual member states voted, were not immediately clear. The Associated Press reported that 13 states attended (out of 21) and that the vote was unanimous. Details remained unclear at the time of this writing whether any conditions were set for Assad on the return of refugees, drug smuggling and a political process. Washington has been pushing Arab partners to extract tangibles from Assad before readmitting him to the Arab League

  • Perspective: Ahead of Arab summit, Saudi Arabia repositioning as regional mediator

    The Saudis may be willing to play a major role in returning Syria to the fold by the price may be a political solution plan where the Syrian regime agrees to serious reforms such as the return of refugees, the release of prisoners and greater inclusion of the opposition in their political system. While they may just be looking at bringing Syria back into the Arab fold, it is also critical to address the underlying issues that are isolating Syria from the international community, and in particular the US.

  • Saudi Arabia to invite Syria’s Assad to Arab leaders summit, ending regional isolation

    Saudi Arabia is planning to invite Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to an Arab League summit that Riyadh is hosting in May, three sources familiar with the plans said, a move that would formally end Syria's regional isolation. Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan will travel to Damascus in coming weeks to hand Assad a formal invitation to attend the summit scheduled for May 19, two of the sources said.

  • Saudi Arabia to host Global Summit of Real Estate leaders in December

    he Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will host the 42nd edition of the Global Real Estate Summit (42nd FIABCI Global Leadership Summit) next December in Riyadh. According to Saudi News Agency (SPA), the summit is considered as the industry's largest annual gathering, which includes real estate pioneers and CEOs of critical real estate companies from all over the globe to display their expertise in developing the real estate sector.

  • China and Saudi Arabia to sign deals worth $29.3bn at summit

    Saudi Arabia and China plan to sign deals worth more than $29.3bn when President Xi Jinping arrives for a two-day visit on Wednesday to bolster Beijing's relations with the kingdom, state media agency SPA reported. In his first visit to the kingdom in six years, Mr Xi will meet King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. He will also attend a China-Arab summit and a China-Gulf conference in the capital Riyadh that other regional leaders will fly in to join.

  • Saudi Arabia to host China-Arab summit during Xi visit, sources say

    Saudi Arabia plans to host a Chinese-Arab summit on Dec. 9 attended by Chinese President Xi Jinping during his visit to the kingdom, three Arab diplomats in the region familiar with the plans said on Wednesday. Xi is scheduled to arrive in Riyadh on Dec. 7, two of the diplomats and a fourth source with direct knowledge of the visit said, on a trip that comes at a sensitive time for Saudi-U.S. relations that have been strained by a dispute over energy supplies and concerns over growing Chinese influence in the Middle East.

  • Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince leaves Indonesia after G20 summit

    “As I leave your brotherly country, following my participation in the G20 Leaders’ Summit, I express my deepest gratitude and appreciation to Your Excellency for the warm reception and generous hospitality accorded to me and the accompanying delegation,” the Saudi Prime Minister said in a cable addressed to Widodo.