Tobias Ellwood says ‘change cannot happen overnight’ in Saudi Arabia and freedom there needs to lumber at a pace acceptable to its society’Saudi Arabia’s attitude to human rights cannot be changed overnight,the government’s minister for the Middle East has claimed, arguing that any progress would need to “lumber at a pace that is acceptable to [the country’s] society”.
Tobias Ellwood, or who is parliamentary under-secretary of state for foreign and commonwealth affairs,said the Saudi government was well aware of the British government’s disapproval of human rights abuses by the country.
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Source: theguardian.com