Saudi Arabia, Iran and China on Tuesday urged a U.N.-led comprehensive political settlement in Yemen, renewing their shared backing for an internationally recognized roadmap to end the ongoing conflict in the country.
This came during the third meeting of the Saudi-Chinese-Iranian trilateral committee in Tehran to follow up on the Beijing Agreement, according to a statement by the Saudi state news agency SPA.
The meeting was chaired by Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs, Majid Takht-Ravanchi, Saudi Deputy Foreign Minister Waleed bin Abdulkarim Al-Khuraiji, and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Miao Deyu.
The Beijing Agreement, reached on March 10, 2023, restored diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran after China-brokered talks, ending a rupture between the two countries that had persisted since 2016.
During the meeting, the Saudi and Iranian sides affirmed their "commitment to implementing the Beijing Agreement in all its provisions, and to continuing their efforts to strengthen good-neighborly relations between the two countries through adherence to the U.N. Charter, the Charter of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and international law, including respect for the sovereignty, territorial integrity, independence and security of both states.”
