US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met this Monday in Riyadh with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, with whom he discussed efforts to achieve “security and stability” in the Middle East amid growing tensions in the Middle East. region.
According to the official Saudi news agency SPA, the two officials “reviewed aspects of bilateral relations and prospects for joint cooperation, and discussed the development of the regional situation and efforts being made to achieve security and stability,” without going into detail. . .
According to the US State Department, Blinken “stressed the importance of responding to humanitarian needs in Gaza and preventing the conflict from spreading” to the Middle East, given rising tensions over recent US bombings in Syria, Iraq and Yemen.