Signs are emerging Saudi Arabia is trying to improve its human rights record.
All rights reserved.ĬNN’s Kaitlan Collins, Kevin Liptak, Natasha Bertrand and Alex Marquardt contributed to this report.Calling Khashoggi’s death a “horrific crime” earlier this month, Psaki reiterated the administration’s intention to declassify a US intelligence report on the murder, which the CIA assessed was approved – and possibly ordered – by MBS. ™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. So you can expect that he’ll see the Crown Prince while he’s there,” Kirby said. He will have a bilateral meeting with King Salman and King Salman’s leadership team, and the Crown Prince is on that leadership team.
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“So, in addition to the GCC meeting, there’ll be a series of bilateral discussions as there are on the sidelines of all cooperation councils and summits. Pressed by Collins on why the President would meet the Crown Prince when he won’t even speak with him on the phone over his role in approving Khashoggi’s assassination, Kirby noted that as the Defense Minister of Saudi Arabia the prince is part of the King’s larger leadership team. And, a big item on the agenda is the war in Yemen,” Kirby said during a White House press briefing. “It’s counterterrorism, it’s climate change, certainly it’s oil production, obviously, it’s going to be on the agenda. National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications John Kirby stressed to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Wednesday after the unveiling that Biden’s trip to the Middle East in July is about a range of issues with a “big agenda,” and defended the President seeing the Crown Prince. She did not mention Biden’s expected trip, instead praising Khashoggi’s “brave and groundbreaking” work. Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Democrat and the District of Columbia’s nonvoting US House member, on Wednesday applauded the DC Council’s decision to rename the street. “We will hold the Biden administration to account for its treacherous betrayal of the promises it made to the American people, the promises the America people wanted to hear, which is to end support for the brutal dictatorship of Saudi Arabia,” Whitson said.ĭel. “But as disappointing as this is, if you have to put oil over principles and expedience over values, can you at least ask, ‘Where is Jamal’s body?’ Doesn’t he deserve a proper burial? And what happened to his killers?” she said in the statement.ĭAWN Executive Director Sarah Leah Whitson criticized the Biden administration for “it’s shameless capitulation, for its cowardly concessions.” Saying the President would be “dishonoring” himself and Khashoggi by meeting with the Crown Prince, she called on Biden to “uphold your vow to bring all the perpetrators of this brutal crime to justice.” She was not present at the Wednesday ceremony but reiterated her criticism of Biden in a statement read on her behalf.
Hatice Cengiz, Khashoggi’s fiancée, previously accused the President of losing his moral compass in a statement to CNN. They also said Biden does plan to raise Khashoggi’s murder directly with the Crown Prince when they meet as soon as next month
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The officials said Biden, who is facing pressure to crack down on Russia and lower gas prices amid rising inflation, has set aside his moral outrage to pursue warmer relations with the Kingdom. The Biden administration released an intelligence report in 2021 that directly accused the Crown Prince of approving the operation to capture or kill the Saudi journalist.ĬNN reported last week that senior US officials conveyed to Saudi Arabia that the US is prepared to move forward with a “reset” of the relationship, and effectively move on from Khashoggi’s murder in order to repair ties, according to senior US officials. “Jamal’s legacy will live on, no matter the normalization efforts.” “Our message today, is that we will not move on,” Alaoudh said.
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