U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday he was not going to have a meeting with Saudi Arabia's de facto leader Mohammed bin Salman during a trip next month and that he was only seeing the Saudi crown prince as part of a broader 'international meeting.'
WASHINGTON -U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday he was not traveling to Saudi Arabia's explicitly to meet de facto leader Mohammed bin Salman during a trip next month and said he was seeing the Saudi crown prince as part of a broader "international meeting."
"I'm not going to meet with MBS. I'm going to an international meeting, and he's going to be part of it," Biden told reporters on Friday when asked how during his Saudi Arabia trip he will handle the topic of the 2018 murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a U.S. resident and critic of the crown prince.
Biden and U.S. officials will also have a bilateral meeting with King Salman and his team, which will include the crown prince. Weeks after taking office, Biden shifted U.S. policy on Saudi Arabia, adopting a tougher stance over the kingdom's human rights record and in particular the killing of Washington Post journalist Khashoggi in Turkey in 2018. U.S. intelligence implicated the crown prince in the murder. The Saudi government has denied any involvement by him.The White House has said, as recently as this month, that Biden's view has not changed.
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