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Riyadh rejects US Senate's 'interference'

China Daily | Updated: 2018-12-18 09:13
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Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (left) talks with Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud during the Gulf Cooperation Council's (GCC) Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Dec 9, 2018. [Photo/Agencies]

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Saudi Arabia on Monday slammed as "interference" US Senate resolutions over the Yemen conflict and the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, warning that the move could have repercussions on its strategic relations with the United States.

The Republican-controlled Senate voted on Thursday to end US military support for a Riyadh-led operation in Yemen, and accused Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of involvement in the murder of Khashoggi.

The largely symbolic vote dealt a fresh warning to US President Donald Trump, who has staunchly backed the Saudi government in the face of intense global outrage that analysts say has left the kingdom diplomatically weakened.

"The kingdom condemns the latest position of the US Senate that was based on unsubstantiated allegations and rejects the blatant interference in its internal affairs," the Saudi Foreign Ministry said in a statement released by the official Saudi Press Agency.

The statement from the kingdom is an unusually strong rebuke of the Senate.

On the Yemen measure, which more broadly attacks the president's prerogative to launch military action, 49 Democrats or their allies voted in favor, along with seven Republicans, while another three Republicans abstained.

The Senate also approved a resolution condemning Khashoggi's murder and calling the crown prince "responsible" for it.

The Saudi ministry warned that the kingdom would not tolerate any "disrespect" of its government.

"This position by the US Senate sends the wrong messages to all those who want to cause a rift in Saudi-US relationship," the ministry said.

"The kingdom hopes that it is not drawn into domestic political debates in the US to avoid any ... significant negative impact on this important strategic relationship."

'Vulnerable to pressure'

A day after the Senate vote, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo again defended US ties with Saudi Arabia on national security grounds, saying the kingdom was a bulwark against their common foe-Iran.

The Senate resolution acknowledged the US-Saudi ties were "important" but called on Riyadh to "moderate its increasingly erratic foreign policy".

"Prince Mohammed and Saudi Arabia, even before introduction of the Senate resolution, were discovering that the Khashoggi killing had weakened the kingdom internationally and had made it more vulnerable to pressure," said James Dorsey, a Middle East expert at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore.

The resolutions cannot be debated in the House of Representatives before January, and would likely be vetoed in any case by Trump.

But the Senate votes send a strong message to the White House over anger on both sides of the aisle toward Riyadh.

Khashoggi, a Saudi contributor to The Washington Post, was killed on Oct 2 shortly after entering the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul in what Riyadh called a "rogue" operation.

The kingdom has denied the crown prince was involved in Khashoggi's killing, masterminded by top Saudi agents close to the prince.

But the murder has tarnished Riyadh's international reputation, and Western countries including the United States, France and Canada have placed sanctions on nearly 20 Saudi nationals.

UN chief Antonio Guterres on Sunday called for a "credible" probe into the murder.

Meanwhile, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his government is looking into ways to cancel a giant 2014 weapons deal with Saudi Arabia over kingdom's role in the Khashoggi case and the war in Yemen.

"We inherited actually a Can$15 billion ($11.2 billion) contract signed by (former prime minister) Stephen Harper to export light-armored vehicles to Saudi Arabia," he said.

The penalty for breaking the contract could exceed Can$1 billion.

Anger at the human cost of the war in Yemen has also prompted a harder line in the US Congress about the US military's role in backing Saudi-led coalition strikes against Houthi rebels.

Since the coalition launched its campaign in 2015, the conflict has killed nearly 10,000 people, according to the World Health Organization.

AFP, Xinhua and AP contributed to this story.

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