PARIS, July 28 — French President Emmanuel Macron is hosting Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for talks in Paris on Thursday, defying criticism that the invitation is deeply inappropriate barely four years after the murder by Saudi agents of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
MBS — who is portrayed at home as a champion of social and economic reform but seen by critics as a murderous tyrant — arrives in France fresh from a trip to Greece to discuss energy ties. It also said there was “credible evidence” warranting further investigation of the individual liability of high-level Saudi officials, including MBS.
His reception by world leaders is “all the more shocking given many of them at the time expressed disgust and a commitment not to bring MBS back into the international community”, she added, denouncing the “double standard”. Callamard expressed concern that “values were being obliterated in the face of concern about the rising price of oil”.The French president had already travelled to the kingdom in December 2021 for talks with MBS, a visit that raised some eyebrows at the time.
Macron will also be arriving from a three-nation tour of Africa, where he visited Cameroon, Benin and Guinea Bissau, none of which are seen as exemplary democracies.
Ha ha ha this is want money and oil can do....a killer can be given VIP treatment....so much for Western human rights..