Saudi Crown Prince MBS to visit Trump on Nov 18: White House

The Saudi Arabian leader’s sojourn volition beryllium his 2nd with Trump arsenic US president, 8 years aft his 2017 travel to Washington, DC.

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) volition sojourn Washington, DC, aboriginal this period for an authoritative moving gathering with US President Donald Trump, a White House authoritative said, marking the Saudi Arabian leader’s 2nd sojourn to the United States superior successful 7 years.

News outlets person antecedently reported connected the crown prince’s sojourn to the White House, but Reuters was the archetypal to study connected Monday that the gathering volition beryllium held connected November 18.

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The sojourn of the Saudi royal comes arsenic Trump pushes countries to articulation the Abraham Accords.

In 2020, Trump reached deals with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco to normalise relations with Israel. But Saudi Arabia has consistently said that immoderate normalisation of ties with Israel is contingent connected a wide way for the instauration of a Palestinian state, alongside Israel.

In an interrogation broadcast connected Sunday, Trump told CBS News’s 60 Minutes programme that helium believed Saudi Arabia would yet articulation the accords.

The unnamed elder Trump medication authoritative told the Reuters quality bureau that “there are discussions astir signing thing erstwhile the crown prince comes, but details are successful flux”.

The Financial Times reported 2 weeks agone that determination were hopes the 2 countries could motion a defence deal during MBS’s visit.

Saudi Arabia and the US person maintained beardown relations for decades, including successful the defence sector.

During Trump’s sojourn to Riyadh successful May, the US agreed to merchantability Saudi Arabia an arms bundle worthy astir $142bn.

During his archetypal word arsenic president, successful 2017, Trump likewise included Saudi Arabia connected his archetypal large travel abroad, a voyage that likewise culminated successful a multibillion-dollar arms deal.

It was besides during Trump’s archetypal word that MBS visited the White House and toured respective cities successful the US.