US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a joint news conference with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on June 8, 2023.
Press TV – June 8, 2023
Saudi officials have snubbed US Secretary of State’s latest push for the Kingdom’s normalization of relations with the Israeli regime and his bid to win further concessions on oil prices and Riyadh’s recent resumption of ties with Syria and Iran during his high-profile visit to Saudi Arabia.
Speaking in a news conference alongside Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud in Riyadh on Thursday, the visiting Antony Blinken reiterated that Washington will continue to play an integral role in expanding normalization between the Tel Aviv regime and Saudi Arabia.
Blinken, who was in the kingdom as part of a US push to defuse rows that have touched on oil prices, and Riyadh’s opening to Iran, further insisted that normalizing relations between Israeli regime and its neighbors was a priority for Washington.
The Saudi foreign minister, however, rebuffed his American counterpart, saying that the kingdom believes “normalization of ties with Israel will have limited benefit without a pathway to peace for the Palestinians.”
“The Palestinian issue was and remains the central issue for Arab countries, and it is at the top of the kingdom’s priorities,” Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had also underlined during the Arab League summit in Jeddah on May 19.
“We will not delay in providing assistance to the Palestinian people in recovering their lands, restoring their legitimate rights and establishing an independent state on the 1967 borders with East al-Quds as its capital,” he further noted at the time.
Blinken also reiterated on Thursday that Washington will not normalize relations with Syria and does not support other nation’s normalization of ties with the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
For his part, Prince Faisal defended the landmark decision to lift Syria’s Arab League suspension, which came shortly after the start of the country’s foreign-sponsored conflict 12 years ago.
“Syria made very clear commitments to address concerns of the international community,” the chief Saudi diplomat said.
“We have differences of opinion but we’re working on finding a mechanism for us to be able to work together,” the Saudi foreign minister also pointed out during the press conference with the US secretary of state.
The Saudi foreign minister also highlighted that China and Saudi Arabia are close and strategic allies and have been increasing cooperation in the energy and financial sectors, and that “cooperation is likely to grow.”
Saudi ties with US, China not a ‘Zero-sum game’
He said Saudi Arabia’s ties with the United States and China were not a “zero-sum game.”
“I don’t ascribe to this zero-sum game,” Prince Faisal said in Riyadh. “We are all capable of having multiple partnerships and multiple engagements and the US does the same in many instances.
“So I’m not caught up in this really negative view of this. I think we can actually build a partnership that crosses these borders,” the top Saudi diplomat said.
Riyadh’s strengthening its commercial and security ties with Beijing comes as US influence wanes in the Middle East region.
Blinken was the second top US official to visit Saudi Arabia in less than a month, following a May 7 trip by White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
However, Blinken’s meetings with bin Salman and Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) foreign ministers were relegated to the inside pages of Al-Watan and Okaz, the two major newspapers in Saudi Arabia.
Blinken and the crown prince had “open, candid” talks for an hour and 40 minutes, a US official said, covering topics including the conflict in neighboring Yemen, the war in Sudan, Israel, and human rights.
Riyadh has also leveraged its growing relationships with Russia and China as the Biden administration has pushed back against some Saudi demands including lifting restrictions on arms sales and help with sensitive high-tech industries.
Riyadh has clashed repeatedly with US President Joe Biden on its supply of crude oil to global markets, its willingness to partner with Russia in OPEC+ and its decision to restore full diplomatic relations with Iran in a deal brokered by China.
slavery ?
https://christiansfortruth.com/skeletal-remains-unearthed-of-150-english-children-worked-to-death-in-millworks-show-no-evidence-of-white-
Most Americans are oblivious to the fact that the ‘fifth column’ that run the current asylum are cheerily destroying their nation… by undermining them on the national and international stage..
the ‘tools’ in the so called alternative media (it’s neither) mendaciously cheer it all on… and the ahem ‘patriot’ imbeciles lap it all up…
. to the point now it seems.. where they think jew Russian mobsters are going to save the world.. and head choppers from the diddle east are heroes…and lsrael is their greatest ally..
You have to admit that’s some stunt…
Fewer nations want to stay tied to America but their end has been hastened by themselves and their use of the dollar to penalise those who wouldn’t do as they said. To sanction or isolate so many means after that they sanction and isolate themselves. They used it too often and showed just what cruel b*st*rds they are.
Finally, Arabs sticking up for fellow Arabs.
I wonder which country The US is going to use to achieve regime change in Saudi?
Israel’s empty promises of peace coming home to bite them.
Moshe Solomons speaking on morning TV today says this attack on muslim graves was done by jews
he gave a lot of info
i think he could be right
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/06/07/704857/UK-Shia-Muslim-Family-distraught-after-grave-vandalized-tombstone-smashed
Good for the Saudi’s, resuming ties with Syria shows wisdom. Bashar al-Assad is one of the world’s most loved leaders with good reason.
There has never been a better time (like the present) for ANYONE in the US/ zionist
state dept (Sauron division) to beat military feet. Blinken just isn’t wise enough to do it, somebody someday HAS TO! Say what you will about Trump, he did try TO GET THE FLOCK OUT OF SYRIA! Bigly, very fugly clotshot aside, NO PREZ HILLARY, either!
But hey, a day without a big deal is a day without drama, and we are all Palestinian now…
“The more powerful the Jew becomes, the sicker/crazier society gets.” –Nico X
So bloody true.
BLINKEN GO TO HELL ! with your whole
plutocrate jewmafia + take the goy masonry
with you . unwanted species on earth !
More Zio Kabuki theatre. Saudi royal family are cryptos. There are no autonomous countries or high level politicians in this would. All are under the yoke of the JWO. They dictate all factions , alliances , policies , like moving pieces around on a game board.
Timely reminder…..Iranians/Persians are emphatically NOT Arabs their religion Islam is not the same as the Arab….Shiite.
The Persians have a long history too….Alexander The Great gave them a pasting…..and wrecked their main city…..obviously Alex is not regarded as “Great” in Iran. (these were pre Islamic times)
The Mongols who are estimated to having butchered 40 million people are “great” in Mongolia and have erected a giant silver colored statue of Ghengis Khan outside Ulan Batur. (In reality Ghengis Khan was a complete c**t with a penchant for mass murder….
It is just as well these freaks were stopped in Eastern Europe by a fortuitous set of circumstances.(nomadic people always pose a threat to established civilisations….hint hint.
Once China threw them out after 200 years…..it became a popular pastime to launch Mongols on the back of powerful rockets….to their deaths.Hence a brand of Chinese fireworks known as the (roughly translated) Ghengis Fizzer ©.
If Saudi Arabia continues to ignore Western diktats, USrael will either completely overthrow the House of Saud (probably citing ‘human rights’ issues), or will put in some sidelined and disgruntled member of the royal family as a puppet (the most likely option).
Nico X praising his own uninspiring statement all the time
The sad truth is that Prince Mohammed Bin Salman of Saudi Arabia will confirm the covenant with Israel spoken of in the book of Daniel chapter 9:27. It will be a 7 year covenant which will be broken after 3 1/2 years. He is the “little horn” (Daniel 7:8) who wants to be like the “big horn” or Alexander the Great, as he stated in a video. In Isaiah 28:15, it is said that “We have made a covenant with death, and with Hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us:for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves.” Yes, the Israelis will be sorry they covenanted with this man, but too late.