Saudi Gazette report

RIYADH — Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi’s visit to the Kingdom on Monday has been deferred, Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal Bin Farhan has said.

“The Kingdom appreciates the choice of the Iraqi Prime Minister to visit [Saudi Arabia] as the first country after taking office,” Prince Faisal said on Twitter. “To celebrate this extremely important visit and to provide all means for its success, our rational leadership, in coordination with our brothers in Iraq, opted to postpone the visit until Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques is released from the hospital,” he added.

King Salman was admitted to a hospital in Riyadh overnight Monday for medical checks due to an inflammation in the gall bladder, state news agency SPA reported citing a statement from the Royal Court.

The Iraqi prime minister was expected to visit the Kingdom on his first official foreign visit with Iraq's ministers of oil, electricity, planning and finance.