Biden: No Private Meeting With Saudi Crown Prince

Reuters reports:

President Joe Biden said on Friday he was not going to have a meeting with Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader Mohammed bin Salman during a trip next month and that he was only seeing the Saudi crown prince as part of a broader “international meeting.”

Biden’s plan for talks with the crown prince, known as MBS, were part of his first trip to the Gulf region as president and seen by rights advocates as at odds with his promise to put human rights at the heart of U.S. foreign policy.

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