Saudi Arabia said it rejected completely "the negative, false and unacceptable" assessment of a US intelligence report released on Friday on the murder of Saudi citizen Jamal Khashoggi.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has followed the report submitted to the United States’ Congress regarding the heinous murder of Saudi citizen Jamal Khashoggi,” the Ministry said in a statement.
The Ministry reiterated that this was an "abhorrent crime and a flagrant violation of the Kingdom’s laws and values."
The Saudi government “completely rejects the negative, false and unacceptable assessment in the report pertaining to the Kingdom’s leadership, and notes that the report contained inaccurate information and conclusions,” it said.
"The crime was committed by a group of individuals that have transgressed all pertinent regulations,” said the statement.
“The relevant authorities in the Kingdom took all possible measures within our legal system to ensure that these individuals were properly investigated, and to ensure that justice was served. The concerned individuals were convicted and sentenced by the courts in the Kingdom, and these sentences were welcomed by the family of Jamal Khashoggi.”
The Ministry affirmed that the partnership between the Kingdom and the United States is “robust and enduring.”
