“Today, we’re going through a stress test, but I am confident that we will get out of it and get to a better place,” Al Otaiba predicted. Yousef Al Otaiba, the UAE ambassador to the US, confirmed strained relations between the two countries. Issues include the revival of the Iran nuclear deal lack of US support for Saudi intervention in Yemen’s civil war and its refusal to add Houthis to its list of terrorist groups US help with a Saudi civilian nuclear program and legal immunity for Prince Mohammed, who is facing lawsuits over the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi by a Saudi hit-team in its Istanbul consulate four years ago.ĭuring Biden’s election campaign he vowed to treat the kingdom as a “pariah” state, saying there is “very little social redeeming value in the present government in Saudi Arabia.”Įarlier this week, White House spokesperson Jen Psaki said there were no plans for the Biden and Prince Mohammed to talk soon, and no plans for the president to travel to Riyadh. Relations between the US and Saudi Arabia have chilled during the Biden administration over American policy in the Gulf region. Venezuela has now released at least two Americans from jail in an apparent goodwill gesture toward the Biden administration in a possible prelude to increasing production to ease the price surge. However, the US has for the first time in years opened up diplomatic channels with Venezuela, a Russian ally and which has the world’s largest oil reserves. Last week, OPEC+, which includes Russia, declined to increase oil production despite western entreaties.īut reports of frigid communications with Saudi Arabia come as the Biden administration seeks to increase oil supply after formally banning Russian oil imports on Tuesday, pushing oil prices to $130 a barrel, the highest level in 14 years.
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