Biden: I will not have a bilateral meeting with Muhammad bin Salman.
The US president has said he will not meet with the Saudi Crown Prince during his visit to the region next month.
US President Joe Biden said Friday that he was not scheduled to meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during his visit to the Middle East.
Joe Biden told reporters Friday that he was only scheduled to meet with Ben-Muslim as part of a wider international meeting.
“I am not going to meet with the MBS (short for Muhammad bin Salman),” Biden said in response to a reporter’s question about how he would address the assassination of Jamal Khashgechi during his trip to Saudi Arabia. “I am going to an international meeting, which he will also attend.”
Biden’s remarks came as reports of Biden’s intention to meet with Ben-Muslim led to sharp criticism of the US president. During the election campaign, he promised to hold Bansalman accountable for the murder of critical Saudi journalist Jamal Khashgechi.
After the assassination of Jamal Khashgechi, a critical Saudi journalist by Saudi Arabia, Joe Biden used harsh human rights gestures against Riyadh, trying to pretend that the United States, as the world’s human rights police, was not ready to promote trade and Ignore the economic interests, human rights abuses of other countries and even its allies.
The Biden government confirmed in an intelligence report in February 2021 that the brutal assassination of Jamal Khashgechi, a Saudi opposition journalist and columnist for the American Washington Post in 2018 at the Saudi consulate in Turkey, had been confirmed by the Crown Prince.
However, Washington refused to sanction bin Salman under the US Magnitsky Universal Human Rights Accountability Act for his direct involvement in “gross human rights abuses” and ultimately saw no significant response to the shocking world-wide assassination. Failed.
