Global Affairs Canada (GAC) released a statement Wednesday announcing that Canada and Saudi Arabia have agreed to name new ambassadors nearly five years after a diplomatic conflict halted relations and strained trade between the two countries.
Global Affairs Canada released a statement Wednesday announcing the decision. The news was first reported by Reuters.
"In light of what has been discussed between [Trudeau and bin Salman] ... and the desire for both sides to restore diplomatic relations between the two countries on the basis of mutual respect and common interests, it has been decided to restore the level of diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia to its previous level," the statement reads.Jean-Philippe Linteau has been named Canada's new ambassador to the Middle Eastern kingdom.
The move was seen as retaliation against Ottawa over its criticism of Saudi Arabia's human rights record — specifically a GAC tweet that raised concerns about the arrests of prominent women's rights activists, including Samar Badawi. Badawi is the sister of Raif Badawi, a Saudi dissident blogger who has been imprisoned by the Saudi government since 2012 on charges of apostasy and "insulting Islam through electronic channels." Raif Badawi's wife Ensaf Haidar and their three children fled Saudi Arabia and have been living in Canada since 2015.death of U.S.
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