RIYADH – Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has thanked President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan for welcoming the Kingdom’s proposal to form a Joint Investigation Team to look into the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
King Salman stressed the desire of the Kingdom for building relations with Turkey as much as the Republic of Turkey was keen on it.
‘No one will undermine the strength of this relationship,’ said the king in a statement issued by the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs late Sunday.
On the other hand, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appreciated the ‘fraternal, distinguished, historical and close relations between the two countries’.
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Ankara and Riyadh are engaged in a diplomatic tiff over the mysterious disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi who went to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2 but was not found later.
Turkey and the United States have mounted pressure on Saudi Arabia to explain the mysterious disappearance of the journalist.
President Donald Trump has also declared that he ‘had to find out what happened’ amid concerns that the journalist Jamal Khashoggi was against the policies of the Saudi regime.
Saudi Arabia on Sunday warned against threats to punish it over Jamal Khashoggi issue.
US President Donald Trump has threatened “severe punishment” if it turns out Khashoggi was killed in the consulate, though he said Washington would be “punishing” itself if it halted military sales to Riyadh.
“The Kingdom affirms its total rejection of any threats and attempts to undermine it, whether by threatening to impose economic sanctions, using political pressures, or repeating false accusations,” the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) quoted an unnamed official as saying.
“The Kingdom also affirms that if it receives any action, it will respond with greater action, and that the Kingdom’s economy has an influential and vital role in the global economy,” the official added, without further dishing in on the matter.
