{"id":1556660,"date":"2022-07-15T15:04:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T19:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1556660"},"modified":"2022-07-15T15:04:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T19:04:27","slug":"biden-meets-with-saudi-arabias-crown-prince-amid-energy-security-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-meets-with-saudi-arabias-crown-prince-amid-energy-security-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Meets With Saudi Arabia\u2019s Crown Prince Amid \u2018Energy Security\u2019 Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-meets-with-saudi-arabias-crown-prince-amid-energy-security-concerns%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1556660&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> arrived in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-saudi-arabia\">Saudi Arabia<\/a> on Friday and gave\u00a0Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KSAmofaEN\/status\/1547978221781540864\">fist bump<\/a> and shook hands with\u00a0King Salman, coming after then-candidate Biden pledged to make the kingdom a \u201cpariah\u201d on the world stage.<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Friday that the flight \u201cfollows the monumental decision to open Saudi airspace to all civilian carriers without discrimination, a decision that includes flights to and from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-israel\">Israel<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Energy and security interests prompted Biden and his aides to decide not to isolate the Gulf oil giant that has been strengthening ties with Russia and China.\u00a0Biden, who said he would discuss human rights during the visit, was met by Prince Khalid al-Faisal, the governor of Mecca province, which includes the Red Sea city of Jeddah.<\/p>\n<p>When opening statements were completed, several American reporters, including NBC\u2019s Peter Alexander, shouted questions about the death of Washington Post columnist Jamal\u00a0Khashoggi at the prince.\u00a0\u201cWill you apologize to his family?\u201d one shouted to the prince. \u201cIs Saudi Arabia still a pariah?\u201d another asked. Bin Salman did not respond as reporters were led from the room.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udcf7 | HRH Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman receives <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/US?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#US<\/a> President at Al-Salam Palace in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jeddah?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Jeddah<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oVy7igzDWw\">pic.twitter.com\/oVy7igzDWw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Foreign Ministry \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\udde6 (@KSAmofaEN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KSAmofaEN\/status\/1547978221781540864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biden will discuss energy security with leaders of Gulf oil producers and hopes to see more action by OPEC+ to boost output, but there were unlikely to be any bilateral announcements from the talks, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters en route to Jeddah.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe any further action taken to ensure that there is sufficient energy to protect the health of the global economy, it will be done in the context of OPEC+,\u201d said Sullivan. \u201cWe are hopeful that we will see additional actions by OPEC+ in coming weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden arrived in Saudi Arabia on Friday and gave\u00a0Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman a fist bump and shook hands with\u00a0King Salman, coming after then-candidate Biden pledged to make the kingdom a \u201cpariah\u201d on the world stage. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Friday that the flight \u201cfollows the monumental decision to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}