French President Emmanuel Macron held face-to-face talks in Saudi Arabia on Saturday with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, becoming the first major Western leader to visit the kingdom since journalist Jamal Khashoggi's 2018 murder.
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"We talked about absolutely everything, without any taboos and we were obviously able to bring up the question of human rights," Macron told reporters after meeting bin Salman. Recent contracts have been few, with most centred on the Al-Ula tourism project that aims to bring to life the kingdom's, part of Saudi Arabia's diversification drive to wean its economy off oil revenues.
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