- US tries to reset cooperation with Saudi
- US demands Saudi to augment fuel supply
- US-Saudi sign 13 agreements
Jeddah: US President Joe Biden is making frantic efforts to streamline the tense relations between the United States and Arab-Gulf countries. Against this background, President Joe Biden, who is visiting the Middle East, met Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. The US President also tried to take Saudi into confidence regarding Iran, which has become a cause for concern for the Gulf allies of the United States. The White House announced that the United States and Saudi concurred on stopping Iran from becoming a nuclear state. Meanwhile, President Biden expected that Saudi and the other oil-producing countries should increase their fuel production given the Ukraine conflict.
After completing a two-day visit to Israel, the US President reached Jeddah in Saudi Arabia late on Friday. The entire world is focused on President Biden’s Saudi visit, who has adopted anti-Saudi policies for the last one and a half years. There was special importance attached to the meeting between President Biden and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. Western media pointed out that the Saudi Crown Prince and the US President did not shake hands on the US President’s arrival at Jeddah airport.
A few hours ago, President Biden announced that nuclear negotiations with Iran would continue while he was visiting Israel. Biden also announced that the last option would be military action. It is claimed that the US President maintained the same stand during his talks with the Saudi Crown Prince. Although King Salman is the final authority in Saudi, Crown Prince Salman is the de facto leader and holds the reins of the government. Therefore, important discussions were held between President Biden and Crown Prince Salman. The joint declaration states that there was concurrence on the Iran issue. The joint and the White House statement said that the United States and Saudi concurred that Iran should not be allowed to become a nuclear state.
Discussions were also held regarding the increasing influence and threat of the Iran-affiliated terrorist organisations in the Middle East. Both the countries announced that the increasing influence of Iran and these terrorist organisations in the internal matters of the countries is a major threat to the security and stability of the sector.
The freight movement through the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf and Bab Al-Mandab in the Gulf of Aden was also discussed. Leaders from both these countries agreed that freight movement through these sectors is vitally important.
At this time, the United States and Saudi Arabia signed 13 agreements in 8 sectors. These include energy, production, aerospace, health facilities and other sectors. Saudi expressed confidence that the cooperation between the United States and Saudi will expand in the coming times.
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