Minister’s visit

Indian Minister of State for External Affairs Gen. (Dr.) V.K. Singh (retd) met recently Ahmed Al Humaidan, vice minister for labor and social development, in Riyadh to facilitate the return of stranded Indian workers in Saudi Arabia. Singh thanked the government of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for their full cooperation in solving the problem. In a positive development today, the first lot of stranded workers from Saad Group in Dammam left for India. Total workers sent home by the Embassy during the last two months is around1,730. The assist by the mission in Riyadh was appreciated by the Ministry of external Affairs with the external affair minister tweeting about the embassy’s work: “Indian Embassy in Saudi Arabia is doing outstanding work there.”