Fri. Mar 29th, 2024

Canadian Prime Minister has on Monday, said that Canada is now looking forward to cut off its multibillion-pound arms deal with the nation Saudi Arabia, amid journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder in Saudi’s consulate Istanbul on October 2.

According to news reports, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said: “We are engaged with the export permits to try and see if there is a way of no longer exporting these vehicles to Saudi Arabia.”

Trudeau said: “I do not want to leave Canadians holding a billion-dollar bill because we’re trying to move forward on doing the right thing.”

He said, “The contract signed by the previous government … makes it very difficult to suspend or leave that contract.”

Further, Trudeau denied to give any details over the issue, but however, prime minister’s office further displayed an official statement where it has called the killing of Khashoggi an “unacceptable” event.

Trudeau said: “Countries around the world need to know that there are things they simply cannot do, and killing a journalist who disagrees with the regime is right up there at the top.”

The opponents in politics has cited the killing of Khashoggi and also Saudi Arabia’s full involvement in the Yemen war, and has called upon Trudeau to end the deals of armoured vehicle with Saudi Arabia, which was once negotiated over the previous conservative government.

Last month, Trudeau has said that Canada could be freezing the relevant exports permits if it does concluded the armoured vehicle, which was made by a unit of Canadian of general dynamics corp, had been misused.

Since the controversy over the killing of Khashoggi in Saudi Arabia, a dispute over the human rights early in this year, the relations between the two nations – Canada and Saudi Arabia, had been tensed.

In the month of September, Riyadh had expelled a Canada’s ambassador, curbed the investment over tweets, which was made by Canadian foreign minister who criticized Saudi Arabia’s human rights record, and also recalled the medical students from country.

Then in the month of November, Saudi Arabia has been forced to admit that they were responsible for the killing of Khashoggi in Istanbul.

Trudeau has on Sunday, said, “The murder of a journalist is absolutely unacceptable and that’s why Canada from the very beginning had been demanding answers and solutions on that.”

However, so far the British government has tried to resist joining an international efforts in order to stem the unfolding humanitarian catastrophe.

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