Saudi 🇸🇦 invites Qatar 🇶🇦 pilgrims to Hajj

A statement on the official Saudi 🇸🇦 Press Agency said, the Salwa border point would be open 👍 for Qatari 🇶🇦 citizens who wish to perform the annual pilgrimage to pass through with no electronic 💳 permissions needed.

Qatari🇶🇦 Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, welcomed the decision but insisted that Hajj should not be politicised and that the move should also include a full lifting 🚫 of the political and economic blockade imposed on Qatar🇶🇦 by Saudi Arabia🇸🇦 and three other countries.

"Regardless of the manner in which Qataris were banned from the pilgrimage, which was politicised, and the manner in which they were again permitted to make the pilgrimage, which was also politicised ... the government of Qatar welcomes the decision and will respond positively," the foreign minister said at a press conference 📰 .

Uriel Idowu.

UCJ, UNILORIN.