Saudi backs limit on foreign residency in Gulf
February 11, 2008 by KEGS | 910 Group | 20:52:08 | |
Labour minister says aim is to prevent foreign workers from ever gaining political voice in Gulf region.
RIYADH -” Saudi Arabia’s labour minister said in remarks published on Monday that Riyadh supports a residency limit on the millions of foreign workers in the Gulf to prevent them from ever gaining a political voice in the oil-rich region. “We do not want the day to come when we are forced allow the (foreign) workers to be represented in our parliaments or municipal councils,” Ghazi al-Gosaibi told the Arabic language Al-Eqtisadiah.
He said he feared that international pressure would in the future force states in the region to enfranchise expatriate workers.”
KEGS: I believe that the West should reciprocate the Saudi move.