(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) British Prime Minister David Cameron has been questioned repeatedly on the UK's close relationship with Saudi Arabia by Channel 4 News.
"It's because we receive from them important intelligence and security information that keeps us safe. The reason we have the relationship is our own national security, Cameron said.
Asked by Jon Snow, British journalist and television presenter, whether he had interceded with the Saudis over the planned execution of the Shia activist Ali Mohammed al-Nimr, Cameron admitted he himself had not raised the issue directly but the foreign secretary and the embassy had.
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