Saudi monarch cancels planned state visit to the Maldives

‘King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia has canceled a planned visit to the atoll nation of the Maldives over what has been described as the outbreak of swine influenza in the capital of the to the Indian Ocean archipelago.
Maldivian Foreign Minister Mohamed Asim announced on Friday that the visit, which had been scheduled for Saturday, “has been postponed due to the high prevalence of the flu in the Maldives.”
He added that a new date for the 81-year-old monarch’s trip to the tropical nation would be announced later. The Maldives was to be the final stop in King Salman’s month-long Asian tour that has already taken him to Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, China and Japan.’
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