Spokesperson: British-Maldives APPG agreed that President Yameen’s economic agenda is effective

Spokesperson of the President’s Office, Ibrahim Muaz Ali has said that the British-Maldives All Party Parliamentary Group believes that economic agenda by the President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom is a good and effective agenda.

Muaz Ali tweeted a quote from MP Sir David Amess today that the British-Maldives APPG agrees that President Yameen’s economic agenda is effective.

British-Maldives APPG agreed on the fact that President Yameen's economic agenda is effective - Sir David Amess MP pic.twitter.com/ZlDd9r2Ljt

— Ibrahim Muaz Ali (@SpokespersonMV) February 18, 2016

The Chairman and MP of the British Conservative Party, Sir David Amess has said today that travel bans to the Maldives is not necessary.

At a conference held at Mookai Suites today, Sir. Amess said that that they have visited the Maafushi Prison and observed the cell for the Ex-President Mohamed Nasheed.

He said that the former President was incarcerated in a comfortable cell compared to all the prisons they have visited in the UK and the President was treated well.

Sir David Amess said that the APPG has also met with the Economic Minister and the Tourism Minister and the Maldives is not perceived well in the international community. And so the British MP condemned the allegations of the most terrorists as per the population and 1800 political prisoners in the Maldives.

The British MP said that sanctions against a country that is dependent on the tourism, like the Maldives, would only lead to the suffering of the people.