He was speaking at the opening of the G20 summit in Riyhad which is being hosted for the first time by the kingdom.

President Cyril Ramaphosa is participating in the summit which is being held virtually became of the coronavirus lockdown.

Bin Salman said at the opening that it is vital for the COVID 19 vaccine, weeks away from being injected into the arms of caregivers and potential victims, be distributed to every nation.

Secretary General of Norway’s Refugee Council Jan Egeland says the G20 can only recover from the pandemic if the countries make exponential payments to the world’s poorest countries to overcome the effects of it.

Holding the summit virtually has robbed Soudi Arabia of an opportunity to showcase its economic advances.

However, the spotlight has turned brightly on human rights violations in the kingdom.

Amnesty International urges the G20 “not to buy the Saudi spin because the real change makers in the kingdom are in jail.”

Human Rights Watch says the summit  “helps Saudi Arabia deflect from its image as a pervasive human rights violator.”

The family of the most outspoken dissident is urging G20 leader to press the Saudi authorities to release 31-year-old women’s rights defender Loujain al Hathloul.

She’s been in jail since May 2018 and is understood to be on hunger strike.

Her family say she has been tortured and suffered sexual abuse in jail.

Saudi foreign minister Adel Jubeir says Hathloul is being held for national security reasons not because of her women’s right activism.

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Five men have been sentenced to death by the Saudi Crown Court  and three to long terms of imprisonment.

The Saudi authorities have not identified the men sentenced to death or imprisonment for the grissly killing of Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul 14 months ago.

Washington Post publisher Fred Ryan says those ultimately responsible for this killing are at the highest level of Saudi Arabian political life and continue to escape responsibility.

United States intelligence sources point the finger at the de facto ruler of the Kingdom, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman who accepts responsibility but denies involvement in the killing 

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Earlier the prince met President Cyril Ramaphosa for discussions on cooperation in energy and investment.

The presence of Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman at the gathering of leaders of the world’s richest countries is controversial following the killing in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul of dissident Jamal Khashoggi.

The prince is widely believed to have ordered that killing.

In Buenos Aires last night he was left at the edge of the so-called family portrait and largely ignored by fellow attendees before he stormed off.

Later he and Russian leader Vladimir Putin exchanged high-fives as they entered the meeting chamber.

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