Iranian and Saudi FM meet ‘informally’ in Pakistan

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Saudi Arabia and Iran’s foreign ministers held an “informal” meeting at a key summit for Muslim nations held in Pakistan on Sunday, according to the Iranian foreign ministry. The ministers met on the sidelines of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) Council of Foreign Ministers in Islamabad and comes after years of tensions between the two countries. Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh called the meeting “brief”, adding that no progress in negotiations between the Sunni and Shia Muslim powers had been made. “We did not have a new development in this regard. We are s…