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Riyadh denies plan to let Israeli jets use airspace

The defence ministry has strongly denied media reports that Saudi Arabia is planning to allow Israeli military planes to fly over its airspace.

  • By Abdul Rahman Shaheen, Correspondent
  • Published: 22:37 June 20, 2009
  • Gulf News

Riyadh: The defence ministry has strongly denied media reports that Saudi Arabia is planning to allow Israeli military planes to fly over its airspace.

"These reports are totally false and baseless," an official source at the Ministry of Defence and Aviation said on Saturday.

"All such reports circulated on this matter were no more than lying and pure fabrication that have no basis of truth at all," the ministry statement said.

The source also denied reports that Saudi military officials had met with their Israeli counterparts to discuss the issue.

"The source expressed surprise over such false media reports," the Saudi Press Agency quoted him as saying.

"No Saudi official has met with any Israeli official. There was no such meeting to discuss this matter in any form," the SPA said quoting the statement.

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