1. The Korean government will appoint former Prime Minister Han Seung-soo as a special envoy of 
President Lee Myung-bak and send a delegation led by him to Saudi Arabia from October 25 through 
27 to offer condolences over the death of Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz.

° The delegation will be comprised of former Prime Minister Han Seung-soo; Chung Pyo-soo, a high-
level official at the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Chung Tae-in, MOFAT’s Deputy Director-General for African and 
Middle Eastern Affairs; and Lee Ki-seog, 1st Secretary of MOFAT’s African and Middle Eastern Affairs 
Bureau.

2. The royal palace of Saudi Arabia announced that Crown Prince Sultan had died of his chronic illness 
in New York on October 22. The late Crown Prince Sultan, a brother of former King Fahd and a half 
brother of the current King Abdullah, was the heir to the Saudi throne and served as First Deputy Prime 
Minister, Defense Minister and Aviation Minister.

3. Saudi Arabia is Korea's largest trading partner in the Middle East and the country from where Korea 
has won its largest portion of construction orders worth an accumulated US$96.3 billion since 1973 
when the country started to enter overseas construction markets. In 2011, out of the total US$40 billion 
in overseas construction orders, those from this major market of Korea account for 35 percent.

                    Spokesperson and Deputy Minister for Public Relations of MOFAT

* unofficial translation