Top Saudis won’t attend OIC moot

Published March 3, 2003

RIYADH, March 2: Saudi Arabia does not intend to send top representatives to an urgent Islamic nations summit called in Qatar this week to discuss the Iraq crisis, Saudi sources said on Sunday.

A possible US-led war on Iraq is one of several bones of contention between Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

Neither Crown Prince Abdullah nor Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal will attend the Organization of Islamic Conference meeting, the sources told Reuters.