Armenia and Saudi Arabia signed the protocol on establishment of diplomatic relations

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, Saudi Arabia and Armenia establish diplomatic relations. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia announced yesterday, Saturday, that this country and Saudi Arabia have recently signed a protocol to establish diplomatic relations between them. Published, “Karen Gregorian”, Ambassador of Yerevan to UAE and “Sultan bin Abdullah Al-Angari”, Ambassador of Riyadh to Abu Dhabi, have signed this protocol.

Armenia has recently taken the necessary measures. It has facilitated the issuance of visas for Saudi citizens and has issued the possibility of electronic visa issuance, which has led to an increase in the number of Saudi tourists in Armenia.

Nikol Last Friday, one day before this decision by Riyadh and Yerevan, Pashinyan said in a televised interview that he hopes that Armenia and Saudi Arabia will officially establish diplomatic relations in the near future. He said: We have had contacts with Saudi Arabia in recent years. Our foreign ministers met twice; Phone calls were made; Calls were made in multilateral working meetings; In my opinion, the process is progressing and in the near future, Armenia and Saudi Arabia will establish diplomatic relations. During three decades, it did not establish diplomatic relations with Yerevan, and Riyadh considered Yerevan as an occupying country. With the end of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the liberation of Azerbaijani lands, Saudi Arabia no longer saw an obstacle in the way of establishing official relations with Armenia. He was grateful for the position he had during the occupation of Karabakh lands. Saudi Arabia had not opened an embassy in Yerevan during this time.

About a year after the end of the second Karabakh war and the establishment of a ceasefire between Baku and Yerevan, Armen Sarkisian The then president of Armenia visited Saudi Arabia for the first time. Before that, since the independence of Armenia from the Soviet Union, no official representative from Armenia had visited this country, and in return, Saudi Arabia did not send any representative or ambassador to Yerevan.