Saudi Arabia won't send troops to Iraq

Published September 28th, 2003 - 02:00 GMT
Al Bawaba
Al Bawaba

Saudi Arabia reiterated Saturday that it would not send any peacekeeping troops to Iraq, and said such deployment would not serve the interests of either country.  

 

“The presence of Saudi forces in Iraq would not be in the interests of either country and we are not thinking of it (deployment of troops),” Prince Khaled ibn Sultan, assistant minister of defense and aviation for military affairs, told Okaz daily. 

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