RIYADH — Foreign missions in the Kingdom are not required to employ Saudis in order to meet Saudization targets because this is against the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961, said Osama Ahmad Al-Nuqali, director of media at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Imposing a Saudization policy on foreign missions in Saudi territory would give the right to affected countries to impose a similar policy on the Kingdom's missions abroad, he said. Al-Nuqali was responding to calls from some Shoura Council members to force foreign missions to hire Saudis.
