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dissident Jamal Khashoggi.
The Republican majority in the Senate also did not block the 56-to-41 victory over a resolution ending US military aid to the international coalition led by Saudi Arabia during of the civil war in Yemen.
The coalition supports Yemeni government forces against Houthi rebel militias in a conflict that has claimed thousands of lives since 2014, in addition to a serious hunger epidemic that already affects about 20 million Yemenis.
Despite the measure still to be pbaded by the House of Representatives, which should not be the case this year, the approval marks the first time that one of the Houses of Congress supports the withdrawal of US forces from an international conflict governed by the War Powers Act. The bill, pbaded during the Vietnam War, limits the president's ability to use the country's troops in international conflicts without Congressional support.
The document also calls on Saudi Arabia to "moderate its increasingly erratic international policy" "A language that clearly indicates that Donald Trump's almost unconditional support for the Saudi monarchy does not resonate in all areas
In practice, the measure requires the United States to cease supplying airplanes operating in Yemen.The United States ceased to supply Saudi aircraft last month, so the resolution would prevent Pentagon from resuming operation.
Immediately after the vote, the Senate unanimously supported a second resolution condemning Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, following the death of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and insists that Saudi Arabia bring to justice all those responsible for the crime.
Khashoggi was killed at the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul, T urquie, October 2, in connection with a crime bin Salman ordered the CIA (US intelligence agency) to silence the journalist, criticism of the regime.
Trump questions the conclusions of the US intelligence services and continues, even despite international condemnation, to support the Saudi prince, a powerful economic and diplomatic ally of the United States. On Tuesday, Trump reinforced his support in an interview with Reuters in which he claimed that Prince Bin Salman was "very firmly in power" in Saudi Arabia.
As he had done last month, before Trump sent his Secretaries to the Defense, Jim Mattis, and his state, Mike Pompeo, to try to persuade the parliamentarians to maintain their support for him. Saudi Arabia's action in Yemen, claiming that the United States needed this country. allied with the containment of the growing Iranian influence in the Middle East. Iran is accused of supporting rebel forces in the Yemeni civil war.
Democrat David Cicilline described the meeting with the two secretaries as "a huge waste of time," saying it was not worth harming relations. with the Saudis in the name of an unconfirmed suspicion of bin Salman's involvement in Khashoggi's death.
"We can not hide the lack of respect for human life and the gross violations of international standards that the Saudis denounce," said Senator Robert Menendez of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee.
"Some arms purchases can not buy our silence, they should not buy our silence, and if the president does not act, Congress will do that." the senator, referring to the sale of several million dollars weapons to the Saudis who led Trump to try to preserve his ties with the Crown Prince.
Democrat Trump warned that this measure should also be welcomed by the House of Representatives, which, as of next year, will have the majority opposition. "We will be here next year and we will think of ways to have consequences [para a Arábia Saudita]," said Democratic Senator Tim Kaine.
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