FM Don heads to Saudi with hundreds-strong Thai trade delegation

Don will hold talks with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud and Investment Minister Khalid A Al-Falih during next week’s trip.

Don and his team will also visit a festival to promote Thai halal food exports, according to the Foreign Ministry.

Meanwhile Thai-Saudi investment and business-matching forums next week are expected to bring together about 300 participants, it added.

Don and his team will also visit the King Abdullah Economic City in Jeddah, and Al-'Ula, a cultural heritage city, to explore ways to promote cooperation and investment in tourism and hospitality between the two countries.

Riyadh cut trade and diplomatic ties with Bangkok after the so-called Blue Diamond affair, in which the theft of jewels by a Thai worker from a Saudi palace in 1989 was followed by a series of killings of Saudi representatives in Thailand.