US President Joe Biden confirms that he will meet with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz and his Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, during his upcoming official visit to Saudi Arabia.
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US President Joe Biden
US President Joe Biden confirmed today, Thursday, that he will meet with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz, and his Crown Prince, Muhammad bin Salman, during His upcoming official visit to Saudi Arabia next month.
US President Joe Biden said, in a press conference held following his meeting with the leaders of “NATO” countries at the Madrid summit, that the purpose of his visit to Saudi Arabia “is not to pressure them to increase oil production.”
But he made it clear, when asked whether he would ask Saudi leaders to increase oil production, that “all Gulf countries should increase oil production in general, and not Saudi Arabia in particular,” noting that he “hopes that countries will conclude that this is in their interest.”
French President Emmanuel Macron was He informed his American counterpartthis week, that the President of the UAE told him that Saudi Arabia and the UAE, the only two members of “OPEC”, can only increase oil production “with difficulty”.
The White House recently sought to Underestimate any direct conversations Between Biden and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, he described the upcoming visit to Riyadh as a “meeting with the leaders of the Gulf states.”
White House spokeswoman Karen Jean-Pierre stressed that “the meeting with Mohammed bin Salman is marginal and not the focus.”
this Israeli media quotesAccording to US sources, who said they are “reliable”, what is being talked regarding with US President Joe Biden’s visit to the Middle East “is not related to a Middle Eastern NATO or an Israeli-Arab alliance.”
The Israeli media also hinted that what interested Biden in his visit is the issue of oil and his “need for Saudi Arabia in this matter,” noting that the American president, who will shake hands with those he declared “a pariah” (Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman), “covered the issue of His need for oil-related understandings with Saudi Arabia, a regional cooperation process between Arab countries and Israel.