US President Joe Biden says he has not yet decided whether he will go to Saudi Arabia, Reuters reported.
On June 3, Biden announced that “it is possible that I will visit the Middle East to meet with Israeli leaders and the heads of some Arab countries, and it is possible that I will travel to the Middle East and visit Saudi Arabia.” opportunity,” adding that “OPEC’s announcement of an increase in production is a positive step, but I’m not sure it’s enough.”
CNN reported yesterday, citing US officials, that “Senior US officials have told Saudi Arabia that the United States is ready to move forward in the ‘reset’ of relations between the two countries and effectively move from the murder of a Saudi journalist to the Washington Post.” Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 to mend relations with a major ally in the Middle East.
The network noted that “planning to rebuild ties is a dramatic shift for US President Joe Biden, who took office vowing to make Saudi Arabia ‘rogue’ over Khashoggi’s murder. Mohammed bin Salman orchestrated the assassination of Khashoggi.
“The American and Saudi sides have decided that in order to achieve peace and stability in the Middle East, we must overcome this (the Khashoggi assassination),” a senior US official said, referring to the Khashoggi assassination. The same sources told CNN that this does not mean forgiveness and forgetting (regarding Khashoggi’s murder). They explained that Biden plans to raise the issue of Khashoggi’s murder directly with Mohammed bin Salman when they meet as early as next month.
U.S. officials told the network: “The decision to meet with Mohammed bin Salman was a drug that was hard to swallow for Biden, who said in 2019 that Saudi Arabia had ‘no compensatory social value’, but they said the two countries agreed that relationships could not be “hostages”. An assassination, especially given how much the world has changed since Russia invaded Ukraine in February.”
Source: El Nashra