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'I am worried': Macron's chat with Saudi prince overheard at G20

2018-12-01 09:35:45       source:The Guardian

November 30, 2018


The Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, suspected of ordering the murder of the dissident writer Jamal Khashoggi and accused of war crimes in the Yemen conflict, has told the French president, Emmanuel Macron, “don’t worry” at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires.


The two leaders were having an informal conversation on the sidelines of the summit, standing close together and apparently unaware their conversation was being recorded.


According to a Guardian analysis of their only partly audible conversation, Macron replies to the crown prince’s assurances: “I do worry. I am worried … I told you.”


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