Biden Meets With Saudi Crown Prince

July 15, 2022 3:47 am

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) – A crucial effort to repair one of the world’s most important diplomatic relationships began with a fist bump. President Joe Biden held a carefully choreographed meeting Friday with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the man he had once shunned for human rights abuses. Biden said he raised the issue of the murder of writer Jamal Khashoggi, which U.S. intelligence has said the crown prince approved. This was Biden’s first meeting with the Saudi crown prince, who is the presumed heir to the throne held by his father, King Salman. Biden vowed as a Democratic presidential candidate to make Saudi Arabia a “pariah” for its human rights record