July 14 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, has not clarified whether he will mention the case of the murder and dismemberment of the journalist Yamal Jashogi in his next visit this week to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the place where the tour that has had him touring since Wednesday ends. different parts of the Middle East.
“My views on Jashogi are absolutely clear and I have never been silent when asking about Human Rights,” Biden replied this Thursday during his visit to Jerusalem, where he met with Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid. .
Biden is scheduled to meet this Thursday in Jeddah, western Saudi Arabia, with King Salman bin Abdulaziz and other senior officials of the absolute monarchy, including Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman, noted, according to a declassified CIA report, as responsible for the assassination of Khashogi at the Saudi Embassy in Istanbul in October 2018.
According to White House sources quoted by , Biden could mention the matter and be alone with the crown prince, from whom he hopes to get some kind of recognition of this crime, although the agenda is set by the Saudi authorities.
However, and due to the current fuel crisis due to the war between Russia and Ukraine, the increase in oil production seems to be the main theme of a meeting that Biden will attend after passing through Israel and the West Bank.
Biden has declared that this visit has “much broader” motivations than the oil one and that it is a way of promoting Washington’s interests both in Saudi Arabia and in the rest of the Middle East, after the “mistake” it made in the years “moving away” from the “influence” they had always had, in clear reference to the foreign policy of the Trump administration.
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