Prince Saud al-Faisal Prince Saud al-Faisal, former foreign
minister of Saudi Arabia passed away in United States at 75. He was the Saudi
kingdom’s foreign minister from 1975 to 2015. He had retired in April 2015 and
was succeeded by Adel al-Jubeir. He had served under four Saudi kings and had
advanced the kingdom’s foreign policy, especially after the 9/11 attacks in US.
It should be noted that he was world’s longest-serving foreign minister. His
tenure as foreign minister has seen various extreme events in Middle-East such
as Invasion of Lebanon by Israel (1978, 1982 and 2006). Invasion of Kuwait by
Iraq (1990). Occupation of Iraq by a US-led coalition (2003). Saud al-Faisal
was son of King Faisal and was born on 2 January 1940 in Taif near Mecca. In
the 1960s, he started his career as consultant for Petroleum Ministry of Saudi
Kingdom.
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