Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs and Negotiations in the Gulf Cooperation Council Dr. Abdulaziz Hamad Al-Owaisheq, stressed on Friday that political, geopolitical and economic files would prevail over the Jeddah summit, in light of international tension resulting from the repercussions of the war in Ukraine and Iran’s destabilizing activity.
On the importance of US President Joe Biden’s visit to Saudi Arabia, Al-Owaisheq told Asharq Al-Awsat: “Although the current situation is delicate, the visits of US presidents to the Kingdom and the meetings between the leaders of the two countries are familiar, given the historical relations that bind the two countries over nearly nine decades, since the signing of the first economic agreement between them in 1933, and the granting of oil concessions with American companies in the same year.”
