United States President Joe Biden has “no plans” to meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the coming month’s G20 peak in Indonesia, an elderly US functionary says, as pressures over the OPEC decision to cut oil painting product continue to resonate.
Biden will act “methodically” in deciding how to respond to Saudi Arabia regarding the oil painting affair cuts and options include changes to US security backing, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday.
Speaking on CNN, Sullivan said no changes to the US- Saudi relationship were imminent as Bidenre-evaluates it.
“The chairman isn’t going to act rashly,” he said. “He’s going to act methodically, strategically, and he’s going to take his time to consult with members of both parties and also to have an occasion for Congress to return so that he can sit with them in person and work through the options.”
Relations between the US and Saudi Arabia are on thin ice over the oil painting product cuts. Last week, the Riyadh- led OPEC combination and a fresh group of 10 other oil painting directors headed by Russia decided to reduce global affairs by over two million barrels per day from November.
The move is anticipated to lead to advanced oil painting prices, which would help Russia pay for its descent in Ukraine.
Saudi Arabia’s defence minister said he was “astonished” by allegations that the area was “standing with Russia in its war with Ukraine”.
Prince Khalid bin Salman said the decision by OPEC was taken unanimously and for purely profitable reasons. “It’s telling that these false allegations didn’t come from the Ukrainian government,” King Salman’s son wrote on Twitter.
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‘Always space for inflexibility’
Biden has advised Saudi Arabia that there will be unidentified “consequences” for siding with Russia in supporting the cuts. The OPEC move undermines Western countries’ plans to put a cap on the price of Russian oil painting in response to Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
The move could lead to soaring energy prices, raising enterprises in Biden’s Democratic Party about how it’ll fare in November’s quiz choices.
Washington suggested Gulf directors were aligning with Russia at the expenditure of the United States and its Western abettors.
Russia praised OPEC for agreeing to cut oil painting products and fight what it called the “mayhem” sown by the US in global energy requests.
Asked on Sunday about reviewing the affair cut, OPEC’s Secretary General Haitham al- Ghais said on Sunday “in OPEC there’s always a space for inflexibility”.
He also told a news conference that OPEC opinions were purely specialized, and the patron group took a preemptive decision.
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Arms deals halt?
The move to cut oil painting products has been seen as a politic poke in the face after Biden’s trip to Saudi Arabia to meet with the crown Napoleon in July.
US Senator Bob Menendez, a Democrat who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called for a halt to utmost American arms deals with Saudi Arabia after the OPEC move.
The US-Saudi feud bled into addresses by G20 finance ministers and central bankers in Washington, which closed on Thursday without a common advertisement. The group was formerly divided over the conflict in Ukraine.
G20 heads of state and government will meet in November in Bali for a peak that could see Biden partake in the same venue as Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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