Riyadh appoints new ambassador to London

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister Saud al-Faisal announced that the government appointed its current ambassador to Rome, Muhammad Bin Nawaf, as its ambassador to London.

Nawaf will replace Turkey al-Faisal who was head of the Saudi intelligence for 27 years and became the ambassador to London two years ago. Al-Faisal was recently as an ambassador to the USA replacing of Prince Bander Bin Sultan who resigned from his post after 20 years in this position.

Muhammad Bin Nawaf who was the ambassador to Rome since 1995 is the son of the former president for the general intelligence Nawaf Bin Abdul Aziz, brother of the new Saudi king Abdullah.

Prince Muhammad has a university degrees from Georgetown University for foreign studies, and from Harvard University.