NEW DELHI: Cadets from the Royal Saudi Naval Forces have arrived in India to take part in three weeks of training with their counterparts from the Indian Navy, the first such collaboration between the two nations. The Saudi contingent comprises 55 trainees and five instructional staff from the King Fahd Naval Academy. They arrived this week at a naval base in Kochi, in Kerala
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s minister of defense Prince Khalid bin Salman patronized on Wednesday the graduation ceremony of the 36 batch of King Fahd Naval Academy cadets, the Saudi Press Agency reported. During the ceremony at the academy’s headquarters in the eastern region, cadets performed the oath following a military parade. Prince Khalid then honored outstanding cadets. On
INS Kochi arrived at Port Al Jubail on Monday and was warmly received by officials of Royal Saudi Naval Force, Border Guards and the Indian Embassy. It will be participating in the first bilateral Naval Exercise “Al Mohed Al Hindi 2021” at the Jubail port.
Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, MBS, is not only complicit in the Khashoggi murder. He also imprisons dissidents and journalists at home and wages a brutal war on neighbouring Yemen, in which a quarter of a million people have died.
The UK government could take 10 steps to punish and deter the Saudi ruler. Sanction MBS
Last year Britain launched a ground-breaking policy of placing sanctions on foreign officials accused of the worst human rights abuses.
Anyone on the sanctions list is banned from entering the UK and has their British bank accounts frozen.
In July, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab placed sanctions on 20 Saudi officials involved in the murder of Khashoggi – but so far Raab has refused to sanction MBS himself.