Sudan: Saudi Arabia Distances Itself From Banks' Decision to Stop Dealing With Sudan - Ambassador

10 May 2014

Khartoum — The government of Saudi Arabia informed Sudan that it was not behind a decision taken by an unknown number of Saudi banks last February to suspend any dealings with Sudan.

"Some Saudi banks halted dealings with Sudan and some of the [Sudanese] institutions' accounts in Saudi banks were closed. When we contacted officials in the kingdom we were told that this decision is not political," the Sudanese ambassador in Riyadh Abdul-Hafiz Ibrahim told the London-based al-Hayat newspaper on Saturday.

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