Riyadh, May 8, (VOI) - Saudi authorities initiated efforts to hold talks with the Iraqi officials on jailed Saudi citizens in the Iraqi detention centers. The two sides agreed to choose Jordan as a place of their meeting to tackle this issue.
“Communication is still underway between the two sides to set a date for their meeting in Jordan,” the London-based al-Hayat International newspaper said in its edition on Thursday. “Saudi-Iraqi contacts led to the agreement to hold a meeting between the Saudi human rights body and Iraqi Human Rights Ministry in Jordan,” it added.
“The Saudi move came after an international human rights organization announced that 2,000 Saudis killed in Iraq and there is unlimited number of Saudi in Iraq’s jails,” the paper reported. “The Saudi human rights body had sent a delegation to Jordan to gather information from Iraqi and humanitarian bodies on the killing of 2,000 Saudi as well as the condition of Saudi detainees in the war-ravaged country. The Saudi body found that some Saudi was jailed because they entered the country illegally and some of them still behind bars despite they spent their time,” the paper added.
| So we and the Iraqis have whacked two thousand Saoodis. How interesting. |
Iraqi National Security Adviser Muwafaq al-Rubaei had said that his government handed six Saudi citizens to the kingdom last March. |