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The Saudi monarch, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, telephoned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The Saudi Press Agency (SPA) on Friday, the communication aimed at coordinating efforts on the agenda of the twentieth summit that hosts the Kingdom by default on Saturday, also discussed the bilateral relations between the two countries.
Erdogan and King Salman agreed to keep dialogue channels open to develop bilateral relations and eliminate problems, according to a statement issued by the Communication Department of the Turkish Presidency.
The statement said that President Erdogan and King Salman “agreed to keep the channels of dialogue open to develop bilateral relations and eliminate problems.”
Saudi Arabia and Turkey are members of the economic group that includes the 20 largest economies in the world.
The Kingdom will “hypothetically” host the G20 summit on November 21 and 22.
Saudi Arabia assumed the presidency of the group in November 2019 for a year, following the end of the summit held in Japan.
There are expectations that the leaders of Turkey, the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, India and other countries will participate, along with other countries such as Turkey, Russia and China.
The Saudi monarch had ordered two weeks ago to send urgent humanitarian aid to Turkey for the benefit of those affected by the earthquake that struck Izmir, in western Turkey, at the end of last month.
The conversation between King Salman and President Erdogan comes in light of the tension in relations between Ankara and Riyadh for years, due to various files related to foreign policy, as well as the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate. in Istanbul in October 2018.
Some Saudi and Turkish traders have spoken in recent months that Saudi Arabia will impose an informal boycott of Turkish goods, and last month groups representing major Turkish companies urged the kingdom’s authorities to improve trade relations between the two. countries.
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