In a video shared on the social networking website Twitter, Prince Faisal and Amirabdollahian are seen greeting each other before sitting down together.
? | This meeting comes after the two countries agreed to resume diplomatic ties under a #China-brokered deal.#EKHNews_EN pic.twitter.com/IE5hsYPyuH— AlEkhbariya News (@EKHNews_EN) April 6, 2023 The meeting marked the first formal contact between Saudi Arabia and Iran’s top envoys since 2016.The talks came after three separate phone calls between the two foreign ministers, in which they discussed the subsequent steps needed to resume their diplomatic missions and reactivate previous agreements, according to sources.Saudi Arabia, Iran, and China on March 10 announced that they would resume diplomatic relations within 60 days, saying in a statement that all joint agreements between the two countries, including the security cooperation agreement, and deals on economy, trade, investment, technology, science, culture, sports, and youth would be reactivated.Saudi Arabia cut ties with Iran in 2016 after its embassy in Tehran was stormed during a dispute between the two countries.At the time, the Kingdom asked Iranian diplomats to leave the country within 48 hours while it evacuated its embassy staff from Tehran.