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EllieBC

(3,384 posts) Sun Aug 5, 2018, 10:47 PM Aug 2018

Saudi Arabia to freeze new trade with Canada, recalls ambassador

Saudi Arabia said Sunday it is ordering Canada's ambassador to leave the country and freezing all new trade and investment transactions with Canada in a spat over human rights.

"We consider the Canadian ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia persona non grata and order him to leave within the next 24 hours," Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry said on Twitter. Saudi Arabia is one of Canada's largest export markets in the region.

More at link:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/saudi-arabia-suspends-trade-canada-ambassador-1.4775133

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How is it interference to point out what is already known??? SA is not exactly a human rights paradise.

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Saudi Arabia to freeze new trade with Canada, recalls ambassador (Original Post) EllieBC Aug 2018 OP

I love this governing by Twitter-Shitter crap. democratisphere Aug 2018 #1

hilarious how SA is acting like Canada is the bad guy here Cheetopuff Aug 2018 #2

democratisphere

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1. I love this governing by Twitter-Shitter crap.

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Mon Aug 6, 2018, 02:12 AM

Aug 2018

SA needs to get their human rights act together; it is deplorable.

Cheetopuff

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2. hilarious how SA is acting like Canada is the bad guy here

Reply to EllieBC (Original post)

Fri Aug 10, 2018, 01:57 PM

Aug 2018

A freaking tweet was enough to send the royal family into hysterics. More governments around the world should have the courage to stand up to the sauds, i feel so bad for the women and activists there.

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