“The Foreign Ministry renewed its warning to citizens currently in Syria to leave swiftly and asked those planning trips there not to travel now due to the unrest witnessed by the Syrian arena,” the agency said.
One Saudi had been killed by Syrian government forces in the restive city of Homs earlier this month.
Meanwhile, Syria’s foreign minister will attend an emergency meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) aimed at finding ways to end the bloodshed in his country, an OIC official said Tuesday.
The meeting to be held on Wednesday comes just days after the Arab League imposed unprecedented economic sanctions on Syria, including a ban on travel of Syrian officials to Arab countries.
“The (OIC) general secretariat has received confirmation from the Syrian side that Foreign Minister Walid Muallem will attend,” the OIC official said.
He also said that Ali Akbar Salehi, the foreign minister of Iran — a key regional ally of Syria — would also attend the meeting in Jeddah.
A statement from the OIC said the world’s largest body has called on Syria “to stop the violence against civilians” and implement reform “in order to spare the country the risk of internationalization of the crisis.”
