United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh on Tuesday to hold talks with Saudi officials over the missing journalist, Al Arabiya local news reported.
Xinhua news agency reported that according to the US State Department, Pompeo would travel to Turkey after his current visit to Saudi.
He is expected to discuss the case of Saudi national journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who has been missing since Oct 2 after entering the Saudi consulate in Turkey.
His disappearance attracted negative criticism against Saudi with claims that he might have been killed or arrested, which was denied by the kingdom as “baseless.”