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President Donald Trump is ready to host Saudi Arabia’s bold and influential Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on the White Home this week for high-level talks aimed toward deepening financial and protection ties.
“We’re greater than assembly,” Trump mentioned on Friday en path to Florida for the weekend. “We’re honoring Saudi Arabia, the crown prince.”
Whereas not formally a state go to, the plans embrace a welcome ceremony with navy bands, a bilateral assembly within the Oval Workplace and a black-tie dinner within the night.
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Prince Mohammed bin Salman serves as the dominion’s highly effective understudy to his 89-year-old father, King Salman. Broadly thought to be Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, he manages practically all day by day political beliefs and regularly represents the dominion in worldwide summits and diplomatic conferences.
Tuesday’s conferences will mark Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s first go to to the White Home in additional than seven years. Trump mentioned final week that he plans to debate strengthening ties with the Saudi chief and hopes the dominion will transfer towards formally recognizing Israel.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman returns to the White Home on Tuesday for the primary time in additional than seven years. (Win McNamee/Getty Pictures)
“The Abraham Accords can be a component we’re going to be discussing,” Trump instructed reporters Friday. “I hope that Saudi Arabia can be becoming a member of the Abraham Accords pretty quickly.”
Such a transfer would construct on Trump’s signature foreign-policy initiative, the Abraham Accords, which normalized relations between Israel and a number of other Arab nations throughout his presidency.
The crown prince final visited the White Home in 2018, simply months earlier than Jamal Khashoggi, a dissident journalist and critic of the dominion, was murdered at a Saudi consulate in Turkey.
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U.S. President Donald Trump and the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman are anticipated to signal a number of financial and protection offers this week in Washington. (Win McNamee/Getty Pictures)
A subsequent CIA evaluation concluded the prince had doubtless ordered the killing, although he has persistently denied involvement. Even so, Trump’s relationship with the crown prince appeared largely undeterred throughout his first time period.
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Trump final met the crown prince throughout his first state go to of his second time period to Riyadh in Could, the place he was welcomed with a fighter jet escort, an honor guard wielding golden swords and a parade of Arabian horses flanking his limousine.
U.S. President Donald Trump final met with the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh earlier this yr. (Win McNamee/Getty Pictures)
The Trump administration can be anticipated to finalize an settlement with bin Salman to permit Riyadh to buy F-35 stealth fighter jets, Bloomberg reported Friday, citing a White Home official.
The 2 leaders are anticipated to signal a number of different financial and protection agreements in the course of the crown prince’s go to to the White Home on Tuesday, the report added.
