Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman landed in Buenos Aires ahead of the G20 leaders summit, according to Argentine TV news, Aljazeera reported.
His arrival comes amid international furor over the murder of Khashoggi and a request by Human Rights Watch that Argentina investigates him for war crimes in Yemen.
Reuters news agency is reporting that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman left Tunisia for Argentina to attend the G20 summit, where all eyes will be on world leaders’ reaction to the man accused of ordering Khashoggi’s murder.
The prince left Tunisia early on Wednesday, Reuters quoted Alarabiya’s website as saying.
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The crown prince’s G20 attendance is a bold effort to force the issue of whether world leaders will work with Saudi Arabia, analysts say. Riyadh is also indicating with his appearance in Buenos Aires that Prince Mohammed is back in the saddle and the worst of the controversy is over.
Human Rights Watch requested that Argentine authorities arrest the crown prince and that he be tried by a court for war crimes in Yemen and Khashoggi’s killing.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu for the first time recounted gruesome details from audio tapes purportedly of the killing, confirming some of the content that has so far only been leaked by Turkish media.
A Saudi forensics doctor involved in the Istanbul consulate murder is “instructing the others they should listen to music while he dismembers the body”, Cavusoglu said in an interview with German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung published on Tuesday.
“You can tell he is enjoying it,” he said. “He likes to cut up people. It is disgusting.”
The remains of Khashoggi, a columnist for the Washington Post, have not been located.
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