{"id":16455,"date":"2023-05-25T18:38:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T13:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=16455"},"modified":"2023-05-25T18:38:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T13:38:19","slug":"canada-saudi-arabia-restore-full-diplomatic-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/canada-saudi-arabia-restore-full-diplomatic-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada &#038; Saudi Arabia restore full diplomatic ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada &amp; Saudi Arabia restore full diplomatic ties. In a major breakthrough, Saudi Arabia and Canada have announced ending a diplomatic dispute and restoring full ties following a five-year dispute over human rights.<\/p>\n<p>The development came following discussions between Canadian Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustinTrudeau\">Justin Trudeau<\/a> and Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on the sidelines of the summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum in Bangkok on November 18, 2022, according to the Canadian government\u2019s statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said both sides desired for restoring diplomatic relations between the two countries \u201con the basis of mutual respect and common interests\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Ottawa has decided to restore the level of diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia to its previous level, the communique said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanada has appointed a new ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Jean-Philippe Linteau,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/saudi-arabia-introduces-high-tech-e-visa-facility.html\">Saudi Arabia introduces high-tech e-visa facility<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a separate statement, the Saudi Foreign Minister confirmed the development saying, &#8220;It has been decided to restore the level of diplomatic relations with Canada to its previous state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said the two countries will &#8220;appoint new ambassadors&#8221; and a Canadian foreign ministry statement named Jean-Phillipe Linteau as Ottawa&#8217;s new envoy to the kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia made no mention of its pick for ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>The latest announcement follows a frenetic stretch of high-stakes Saudi diplomacy triggered by the kingdom&#8217;s surprise Chinese-brokered rapprochement deal with Iran announced in March.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Saudi Arabia has restored bilateral ties with Syria and ramped up a push for peace in Yemen, where it leads a military coalition against the Iran-backed Huthi rebels.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia is also hosting representatives of Sudan&#8217;s two warring generals, and, with the US, brokered a seven-day humanitarian ceasefire that took effect Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada &amp; Saudi Arabia restore full diplomatic ties. In a major breakthrough, Saudi Arabia and Canada have announced ending a diplomatic dispute and restoring full ties following a five-year dispute over human rights. The development came following discussions between Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on the sidelines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":16456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2007,7515,6608,427,9126,7430],"class_list":["post-16455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-canada","tag-justin-trudeau","tag-ottawa","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-saudi-foreign-minister","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}