Question 23087 — foreign policy

Summary

Mr. Fabien Gouttefarde draws the attention of the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs to the significant deterioration of respect for human rights in the Kingdom of Bahrain for several months, and accentuated by recent political and social tensions. In July 2019, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) strongly condemned the Kingdom of Bahrain, in particular, due to the resumption of executions on judicial conviction after trials whose fair nature and in which the regularity of the procedure is widely questioned by this same United Nations agency. According to various associative sources, it seems that the monarchy in place is carrying out radical repression of political opponents, incarcerated in undignified conditions. France maintains close diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Bahrain particularly in economic and commercial matters as evidenced by the meeting between the President of the Republic and the King of Bahrain in April 2019 in Paris. Also, he questions him to find out if respect for human rights constitutes a significant subject of diplomatic discussion between France and the Kingdom of Bahrain and if French diplomacy plans to develop and strengthen this diplomatic axis in order to contribute actively working to improve respect for human rights in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

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