1659003858 Opposition denounces Macrons variable geometry diplomacy ahead of MBS dinner

Opposition denounces Macron’s variable geometry diplomacy ahead of MBS dinner at the Élysée

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The dinner between MBS and Emmanuel Macron on July 28, 2022 has been criticized by NUPES MPs. AFP/Montage Huffpost The dinner between MBS and Emmanuel Macron on July 28, 2022 has been criticized by NUPES MPs.

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The dinner between MBS and Emmanuel Macron on July 28, 2022 has been criticized by NUPES MPs.

POLITICS – Two weeks after the controversial “check” between Mohammed bin Salman – known as “MBS” – and Joe Biden, it is Emmanuel Macron’s turn to take the Saudi crown prince to a “working lunch at the Elysee” this Thursday, July 28 to invite A neck-and-neck race widely criticized by NUPES.

“The sense of the variable geometry values ​​​​of Macronie,” castigated LFI MP Danièle Obono. “Putin attacks Ukraine: Boycott! Bin Salman, charged with murdering journalist J. Khashoggi and orchestrating attacks in Yemen in a war that has claimed more than 300,000 lives: Welcome! Tartuffe! ‘ she denounced on Twitter.

“On the dinner menu between Emmanuel Macron and MBS, the dismembered body of journalist Khashoggi? climate chaos? peace and human rights? Exceeded day? nope ! oil and guns! The exact opposite of what to do! “, adds the ecologist Yannick Jadot.

EELV ecofeminist Sandrine Rousseau agrees: “Mohammed Ben Salmane punishes homosexuality with the death penalty, gives women the status of minors, buys weapons from France to kill civilians in Yemen, orders the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. BUT oil received SO in the Élysée. »

Oil for Human Rights

Same speech for Hubert Julien-Laferrière, Assistant Ecologist, and Jean-François Coulomme, LFI. “In France, we renovate all the faster in times of rising oil prices. Emmanuel Macron chose the direction in which the balance between cheap crude oil and human rights is tilting,” writes the first. “Today we will have a loving thought for journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was cut with a saw by a monstrous bully friend of President Macron who received him on French soil. All shame drunk. Disgusting,” concludes the second.

An outcry that can be explained by the at least indirect involvement of MBS in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul in 2018. The kingdom’s strongman had been ostracized by much of the international community, but the war in Ukraine and tensions over energy prices have changed the situation. From now on, Westerners must turn to this oil exporter to relieve the markets.

The leader of the Renaissance deputies, Aurore Bergé, tried to justify this at the franceinfo microphone: “I think it is important that the President of the French Republic can receive a certain number of those who are de facto his interlocutors ( . ..) all the more so in the context we know, linked to the Ukraine crisis and the major energy challenges we are facing. »

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“The discussion with all the Gulf States seems to me an absolute necessity, it does not mean that you forget the issues (…) that are essential in terms of values ​​and human rights, but you have an obvious need to maintain a dialogue,” she added added. “We must continue to have an intensive dialogue with all Gulf States, and you must do that, including of course with the Saudi President. »

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