Bin Salman thanks Macron, ‘strategic partnership’

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(ANSA) – PARIS, JULY 29 – The Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman (Mbs), expresses heartfelt thanks to the French President, Emmanuel Macron, for the “warm welcome” he received yesterday in Paris.

Despite the indignant protests of associations in defense of human rights and opposition political forces, Macron welcomed the one who is in fact the leader of the Gulf oil kingdom, invited for a “working dinner. “in the presidential palace on the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré.

With a first stop in Athens and then in the Ville Lumière, Salman’s was his first visit to the European Union after the assassination of the journalist, Jamal Khashooggi, in 2018 in the consulate of Riyadh in Istanbul. In a message addressed to Macron, the prince said Mbs addresses “deep gratitude” as well as “thanks for the warm welcome and hospitality”, adding that the exchanges with the French leader “confirmed our common desire to strengthen the strategic partnership between our two friendly countries in all sectors “and to” continue coordination and consultation on issues of common interest “, as well as” strengthen security and stability in the region “.

In a statement, Salman states that he has left France “after having concluded his official visit”.

According to a Turkish and CIA investigation, the Saudi prince would have played a role in Khashoggi’s murder. Yesterday, the NGOs Democracy for the Arab World Now (Dawn), founded by Khashoggi himself, and the Swiss NGO Trial International filed a complaint in Paris against him for complicity in torture and forced disappearance linked to a murder. Khashoggi’s girlfriend, Hatice Cengiz, said she was “shocked and indignant” that Macron was able to receive “my boyfriend’s executioner with all honors”. (HANDLE).

Source: Ansa

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