Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been urged to consider issuing business visas to genuine businessmen without insisting on certificated of local sponsorship to visit the kingdom, according to a report.

The Shura Council has asked the ministry to create a database related to international agreements and conventions, and support them with qualified legal officers, said the Arab News report.

These cadres can properly deal with these issues in a way that can serve the interest in the kingdom and furnish each government agency with agreements concerning that particular agency to revise, activate and give guidance on them, it said.

It also called on the ministry to conduct studies on scholarship students abroad and other Saudis permanently residing in foreign countries in terms of their social and economic conditions.