The Dutch trade mission to Saudi Arabia is finally canceled Now

The Dutch trade mission to Saudi Arabia in December does not definitely end. Foreign Trade Minister Sigrid Kaag is avoiding the country because of the murder of critical journalist Jamal Khashoggi, said Prime Minister Mark Rutte.

The commercial visit was already in doubt because Saudi Arabia does not want to reveal what Khashoggi has to say. A Saudi consulate to Turkey took place

The government has already announced last week that it was "not reasonable" that Kaag travels. Now that Khashoggi has been killed, the mission is definitely canceled. Kaag was due to visit Saudi Arabia from 9 to 12 December, with a large delegation of representatives in his office.

Khashoggi disappeared on October 3rd after a visit to the consulate. After weeks of denial, the Saudi authorities said late last week that the journalist was no longer alive. He would have died in a fight. On Thursday, the Saudi public television reported that the country's prosecutor had declared that the killing of Khashoggi had occurred with "premeditation".

The body of the sixty-year-old journalist has not been found yet. Turkish researchers had already started researching the body before the announcement of Saudi Arabia.

D66 and SP hope that relations between Europe and Saudi Arabia are fundamentally changed

Last week, Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra also declared for an investor conference in Riyadh. The government then wrote in a letter that, considering the "extremely serious information about the fate of journalist Jamal Khashoggi" and "based on an assessment of the facts around the case", it is not reasonable that the trade mission continues. "

] The House of Representatives said that it was behind this decision, but D66 and SP have indicated they want to do more, and it is time for the two sides to fundamentally redesign the relationship between the two parties. Europe and Saudi Arabia They evoked the years of war in Yemen, during which the Saudis attempted to expel the Houthi rebels backed by Iran.

On the At the insistence of the Netherlands, the UN conducted an investigation into the humanitarian situation in the country and concluded that Saudi Arabia is violating the laws of war, D66 MP Sjoerd Sjoerdsma advocates an arms embargo, also said Sadet Karabulut (SP).

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