the Night of Friday, Swedish time in the last week marked the u.s. senate, hard against saudi Arabia. With 56 votes against 41 members voted for a resolution to stop the U.S. funding of the war in the Yemen.
the Senate also approved a resolution which establishes that the crown prince Mohammed bin Salman was behind the high-profile murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi on 2 October at the saudi consulate in Istanbul.
reaction to the senate’s selection. The ministry of foreign tone, was very spaced.
”the Kingdom categorically rejects any interference in its internal affairs (…) as well as any attempt to undermine the independence, or diminish its reputation”, is called it among other things, in a long statement published on the foreign ministry’s website early on Monday.
In the rancor, the statements are comparable with how the saudis reacted to the foreign minister of Sweden Margot Wallström’s recent moves in the year 2015, after piskdomen against the saudi dissident blogger Raif Badawi.
Margot Wallström called the judgment ”medieval”. It got the saudis to call home its ambassador and mobilize the whole of the islamic world against the Swedish foreign minister. It took a personal apology from both the government’s emissaries Björn von Sydow and king Carl Gustaf of sweden in order to get the saudis in a good mood again.
in the present case: the USA’s head of state, president Donald Trump, in the case of Jamal Khashoggis all the tours have been very reluctant to criticise the saudi royal family, or to found crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, personally, with involvement in the assassination.
Trump is very keen to maintain a good relationship with saudi Arabia, mainly because of the gilt-edged defence contracts that the saudis signed with the u.s. arms.
” Maybe it’s the world’s fault that Khashoggi dog, said president of the Trump in an equally bland as puzzling comment almost a month ago.
Trump’s statement came after the us intelligence agency the CIA’s investigation of Khashoggimordet leaked out in the media. The CIA investigators say they are convinced that crown prince bin Salman known to the or to and with been involved in mordplanerna.
Maybe it Trumps the approach to Monday’s statement also contains some of the mitigating formulations, to the senate’s decision will not affect the uk’s ”leading role” in the region or its cooperation with the united states in the fight against terrorism and in efforts to respond to Iran.
