Norway’s Foreign Minister, Espen Barth Eide, on Monday accused the Western countries of double standards on the second day of the World Economic Forum held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
With brutal war unravelling in Gaza and Ukraine, the Foreign Minister argued that the West’s support for the war-torn European country, inherent in terms of respect for international law, has been absent when it comes to violations of international law in Gaza.
“Many Western countries hesitated to use the same type of language against violations of international humanitarian law, for instance, that we easily apply when they are violated by Russia in Ukraine,” Eide said.
The special meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) which began on Sunday is taking place amid the ongoing brutal Israeli war on Gaza in which more than 34,000 Palestinians were killed, mostly women and children, while tens of thousands are injured, missing, or uncounted for, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
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