Thailand hopes to normalize diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia by "concluding the Blue Diamond" case, involving at least four unsolved murders of Saudi diplomats and millions of dollars'-worth of missing royal jewelry, state media said Sunday. Thailand's new Foreign Minister Noppodon Pattama has pinpointed a restoration of close ties with Saudi Arabia as one of his priorities for his "proactive" diplomacy, said the state-run Thai News Agency.

Thai-Saudi relations have been poor for the past two decades on account of Thailand's failure to adequately investigate and explain the murder of four Saudi diplomats in Bangkok and disappearance of a Saudi businessman in 1989, whose fates were allegedly linked to the so-called Blue Diamond.

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