French President Emmanuel Macron met Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Saturday for the final leg of a two-day Gulf tour.
despite calls by rights groups for a boycott. It's the latest push by the young crown prince to showcase the social reforms he's ushered in and been hailed for. Simultaneously, though, the prince has also spearheaded a pervasive crackdown on human rights activists and critics, culminating in the killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi in late 2018 in Turkey, an operation that stained the prince's reputation abroad.
Lebanon is expected to again feature in Macron's talks with Prince Mohammed. Lebanon, already suffering from an unprecedented economic crisis, is facing To help ease tensions ahead of Macron's trip to Jiddah, a Lebanese minister who had criticized the Saudi-led war in Yemen andHe said he stepped down ahead of the trip in the hopes the move could help the French president's efforts to restore Saudi-Lebanese relations.
While in Qatar early Saturday, Macron praised the tiny Gulf state's role in assisting with evacuation efforts of European citizens out of Afghanistan following the Taliban's takeover of the country over the summer.
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