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Madrid — Joe, USA President Biden said Thursday that he would meet the Saudi king and prince during his visit to Saudi Arabia next month, but the purpose of his trip was to pressure them to increase oil production to curb soaring oil prices. He said it wasn't a call.
At a press conference in Spain, when asked if Saudi leaders would ask to increase oil production, Biden replied "no." Instead, he will continue to insist that not only Saudi Arabia, but all Gulf countries should generally increase oil production.
"I have shown them that oil production should generally be increased, not especially in Saudi Arabia," Biden told reporters.
The White House refrains from a direct meeting between Biden and Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, on his next trip to Riyadh as a meeting with the leaders of the Gulf countries. I tried to cast.
A few weeks after taking office last year, Byden changed US policy on Saudi Arabia to kill and dismantle Saudi Arabia's human rights records, especially the Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. I took a stricter stance against. 2018.
US intelligence has involved the prince in a murder. The Saudi government has denied his involvement.
As presidential candidate, Biden said he wanted to make Saudi Arabia a "paria." But his struggle to lower gasoline prices to record highs this year will increase production to offset the losses caused by the Western sanctions imposed on Russia on the invasion of Ukraine by the Biden administration to oil-producing countries. Complicated the situation that prompted. (Report by Andrea Shalal, Written by Jeff Mason and Jarrett Renshaw, Edited by Mark Porter and Mark Heinrich)
