Al-Faisal calls on Straw to pressure Israel
Saudi Arabia-UK, Politics, 3/16/2004

The Saudi Arabia's foreign minister Saud al-Faisal has called upon his British peer Jacque Straw during their talks in Riyadh yesterday to practice European Pressures on Israel to halt its massacres against the Palestinians.

Straw is in a two-day visit to Saudi Arabia and he will be meeting today with the crown prince Abdullah Ibn Abdul Aziz and head later to the United Arab Emirates UAE and Oman. Diplomatic sources in Riyadh said that the talks of the British minister with Saud al-Faisal dealt with the situation in Palestine and Iraq.

The sources explained that al-Faisal asked Straw "on the need of the European Union's pressure on Israel to halt the daily Israeli massacres conducted against the Palestinian people." The sources added that the Saudi and British sides discussed also the "situation in Iraq." A British diplomat said that the representative of the British occupation in Iraq Jeremy Green Stock will arrive in Riyadh within the few coming hours in a separate visit.

Straw's visit to Riyadh comes after he was briefed from the UN special delegate to the Middle East, Terry Rod Larsen, on latest diplomatic developments concerning to the Middle East. Larsen held in Washington last Wednesday a meeting with the four members in the Quartet committee on the Middle East at the request of the UN secretary general Kofi Annan and the talks dealt with the Israeli separation plan.

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