โThe Saudi authorities refused to give the plane carrying President Bashir permission to cross their airspace," Bashir's presidential press secretary Emad Seed Ahmed, told journalist in Khartoum.
The Saudi Arabian government has no comment on the incident until now. The Sudanese-Iranian ties have been of concern to Riyadh which has historical and political sensitivity with Tehran.
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