A new French ambassador for Saudi Arabia

The French Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that Bernard Politi was appointed as France's new ambassador to Saudi Arabia. The new ambassador was born in 1946. He has a degree from the political studies institute and the National Institute for Oriental Languages.

He was a consultant at the French embassy in Riyadh from 1986-1988, the French ambassador in Abu Dhabi 1991-1994 and since 1994 he worked as anassistant to the director of the Middle East and North Africa department at the French Foreign Ministry.