Riyadh, 14 January 2019 SPA -- Referring to what have been circulated by some electronic websites on a statement attributed to Dr. Ibrahim bin Abdulaziz Al-Assaf, Minister of Foreign Affairs, on opening the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's embassy in the Syrian capital, Damascus, an official source at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied the claimed statement, affirming that this statement is completely untrue and baseless. --SPA 17:20 LOCAL TIME 14:20 GMT 0015 www.spa.gov.sa/w820406