A senior Saudi diplomat is to visit Syria’s capital of Damascus later this week to begin work at the embassy, as efforts to reinstate Syria back into the Arab diplomatic fold accelerate. Saudi charge d’affaires Abdullah al-Haris and several other diplomats will arrive in Damascus on Saturday to resume Saudi consular services, Al Watan reported Wednesday. Al-Haris will submit his credentials to the Syrian foreign minister for approval, before he and his diplomatic team begin work from a hotel in the Syrian capital while work is done to restore the Saudi embassy building, according to the Saudi …