US Embassy, Consulates to Reopen Today
| Sunday May 25, 2003
Agencies WASHINGTON, 25 May 2003 — The US Embassy and consulates in the
Kingdom, closed to the public this week due to fears of an imminent
terrorist attack, will reopen today, the State Department said
yesterday. However, the department said the security situation was still
uncertain and that US citizens should remain extremely vigilant. In addition, the embassy said the travel of US diplomats at the
embassy in Riyadh as well as the consulates in Jeddah and Dhahran would
continue to be restricted. “The embassy wishes to advise the American community that the
embassy and the consulates general will reopen for public business on
Sunday, May 25, 2003,” it said in a notice to Americans in the
Kingdom. “Mission personnel continue to restrict their travel outside the
Riyadh diplomatic quarter and their housing in Jeddah and Dhahran to
essential official and personal business,” it said. Meanwhile, the British Embassy in Riyadh reopened yesterday, the
Foreign Office in London announced. |
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