We won’t sell Saudis our land: Maldivian opposition

‘Opposition parties and dissidents in Maldives have protested a planned visit by Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz following reports that he plans to buy an entire atoll in the South Asian island country.
“We will make it very clear to the Saudi royals that we are against the sale of our land,” the former Maldivian foreign minister, Ahmed Naseem, from the Colombo-based Maldives United Opposition (MUO), told reporters in Colombo, the commercial capital of Sri Lanka, on Friday.
Naseem also warned that mass protest rallies would be held in the capital Malé against the reportedly planned controversial multibillion-dollar deal.’
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