DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has issued a wide-ranging overhaul of top government posts, including naming a new foreign minister, following international fallout from the killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi nearly three months ago.
Adel al-Jubeir, the soft-spoken foreign minister since 2015, is replaced by Ibrahim al-Assaf, who was formerly a finance minister. Al-Jubeir is appointed to the post of minister of state for foreign affairs.
Al-Assaf had been serving as minister of state, and has held a seat on the boards of oil-giant Saudi Aramaco and the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund.
The changes, which impact several key ministries, come as the king and his son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, were looking to announce a major reshuffle following Khashoggi’s killing by Saudi agents in Istanbul.
— AP
Saudi Arabia’s then-finance minister Ibrahim Al-Assaf speaks at the opening of The annual joint meetings of Arab financial institutions in Rabat, Morocco, on April 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar)
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