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Biden to meet with crown prince during Saudi visit
"We can expect the president to see the crown prince" during his July visit to Saudi Arabia, the official said Tuesday, quoted by AFP.
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A handout picture provided by the Saudi Royal Palace on Thursday, shows Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attending a video meeting with the Shura council in the capital Riyadh.
(AFP/Bandar Al Jaloud/Saudi Royal Palace)
P
resident Joe Biden will meet with Saudi Arabia's crown prince and de facto leader Muhammad bin Salman next month, a US official said, despite US intelligence identifying him as likely ordering the gruesome murder of a dissident journalist.
"We can expect the president to see the crown prince" during his July visit to Saudi Arabia, the official said Tuesday, quoted by AFP.
Biden is expected to travel to the Middle East from July 13 to July 16, starting with a stop in Israel and the West Bank before landing in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he is expected to meet with nearly a dozen regional leaders, including the crown prince, as part of a summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council and others, the official said.
The official did not provide specific details on the meeting with bin Salman.
Earlier this month, the White House said Biden still felt bin Salman was a "pariah" for what US intelligence says was his role in the killing and dismembering of a political opponent, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in Turkey in 2018.
The senior official said if Biden "determines it's in his interest to engage with any particular leader, and if such an engagement can deliver results, then he will do so."
The official pointed to the crown prince's role in helping broker an extension of an UN-brokered truce between Yemen's warring parties as an example of the need to engage with Saudi Arabia as way to help bring peace and security to the region.
