Saudi Arabia: Mohammed Bin Salman


Issue 1027 - 01 Dec 2016 | 1 minute read

In late November, Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) received the Chechan Republic’s controversial president Ramzan Kadyrov. Described by The Guardian newspaper as an “Instagram king…vulgar, vicious and very rich”, Kadyrov often has meetings with Gulf officials; he met MBS twice in July 2015 and Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim Al-Thani in January 2016. He also met senior officials in the UAE. A week earlier in Riyadh, MBS met the heads of two defence companies: Thales France chairman and chief executive Patrice Caine and Dassault Aviation head Eric Trappier.

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