White House announces date of Trump’s visit to 3 Gulf countries
US President Donald Trump will visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates in May.
White House spokeswoman Carolyn Levett told reporters on Tuesday that Trump’s upcoming visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE will take place from May 13 to 16.
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It almost looks like they're having some sort of synchronicity because they have this meeting with a neighboring trading partner, we have trading that's going to be done in a digital environment and it's going to have efficiency and transparency and we're talking about digital payments across the region and across borders.
That's going to take new technology and it's going to take what the Central Bank of Iraq has done for the last 10 years...This process isn't just something that got started two days ago or a week ago...Iraq's doing this...It's a global thing.
The impact that Iraq is going to have and other currencies in the world when they all adjust, as [Guru] Petra says, all boats rise with the tide. A lot of boats are going to start rising. All this stuff is being synchronized.
Trump to ‘Strengthen Ties’ with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE in Visit Next Month
WASHINGTON DC, United States (Kurdistan 24) — U.S. President Donald Trump will visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) next month, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Tuesday.
Trump’s trip to the three Gulf countries will take place between May 13 and May 16.
Originally, that trip was scheduled to be Trump’s first trip abroad, underscoring the importance of those countries, particularly Saudi Arabia, in the administration’s policy making.
That is a continuation of Trump’s approach from his first term in office. Then, Trump made his first trip abroad to Saudi Arabia.
However, with the death of Pope Francis, Trump his first trip overseas in his second term will be to Rome, where he will attend the pope’s funeral on Saturday.
In addition, Qatar’s Prime Minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, who is also his country’s Foreign Minister, is visiting Washington, and he met on Tuesday with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Strengthening Ties with Middle Eastern Allies
“The president looks to strengthen the ties between the United States and these countries” that he will be visiting next month, Leavitt said on Tuesday, as she discussed Trump’s upcoming trip.
Although Saudi Arabia is the focus of this diplomacy, it is broad and far-reaching, and it includes the Kurdistan Region as well.
Read More: PM Barzani and United States Reaffirm Strategic Ties
This diplomacy goes back to the first days of Trump’s second term. Saudi Arabia served as the site for the initial talks that the Trump administration held related to its mediation of the war between Russia and Ukraine.
That event marked the first of a series of meetings between senior U.S. and Saudi officials. It is now culminating in Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia.
Thus, in mid-February, Rubio and National Security Council Advisor Michael Waltz travelled to Saudi Arabia, where they met with Russian officials. In that context, they also saw the Saudi Crown Prince and de facto ruler, Mohammed bin Salman.
Read More: US Officials Meet Saudi Leaders Ahead of Talks with Russia
Then, at the end of February, the Saudi Defense Minister, Khalid bin Salman, continued that diplomacy with a visit to Washington.
In March, Rubio and Waltz returned to Saudi Arabia to meet with Ukrainian officials. Again, they also met with Mohammed bin Salman.
Read More: Rubio, Waltz Meet in Jeddah with Saudi Crown Prince
And earlier this month, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud visited Washington.
Read More: US Holds Series of Meetings with Arab Allies Ahead of Meeting with Iranians
In hindsight, those meetings have served to help prepare for Trump’s visit next month to Saudi Arabia, as well as to the much smaller Gulf states of Qatar and the UAE.
Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister
Indeed, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Qatar’s Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, met with Rubio in Washington on Tuesday.
Qatar hosts the largest U.S. air base in the Middle East, Al Udeid. The British Royal Air Force is also located there.
In their meeting, Rubio and Al Thani “discussed the important strategic partnership” between their two countries, “including close security and economic cooperation and shared efforts to address regional challenges in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria,” the U.S. read-out said.
They also pledged closer coordination, as they “reiterated both countries’ support for greater security and stability in the Middle East and emphasized the importance of increased collaboration on bilateral and regional issues.”
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is.gd/zNhyv2UrgentRevealing the agenda of the Arab summit in Baghdad.. “Historic Declaration”
A high-level Iraqi diplomacy revelation, the agenda of the Arab summit scheduled for the capital Baghdad in the middle of next month.
The Iraqi Ambassador to Egypt, Qahtan Al-Janabi, said in a press statement that “the most important of these items that will be discussed are an item on the Arab summit to be held in Baghdad in the middle of next month, and the preparations established by the Iraqi government to receive Arab leaders.” He pointed out that “Iraq is fully prepared to receive the delegations participating in the regular and developmental summits. “
Al-Janabi added that the work of the summit will start on the 12th of next month with a meeting of senior officials in the Arab Economic and Social Council, and the meeting of Arab ministers of trade and economy will be the next day, after which a meeting of permanent representatives will be held, then the Arab foreign ministers, and a day will be allocated to receive Arab leaders, so that they will meet on May 17 in Baghdad, to approve the items of the summit, with speeches to all Arab countries, and then the Baghdad Declaration will be historic in the harsh circumstances of our Arab homeland.
The agenda of the current session includes several main items, including a number of political, economic, social, legal, financial and administrative issues, most notably the item of joint Arab action, and includes the report of the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States between the sessions (162) and (163), and the draft agenda of the ordinary Arab Summit at its 34th session, to be held in Baghdad on the 17th of next month.
The draft agenda also includes an item on the Palestinian issue and the Arab-Israeli conflict. This item includes several headings, including following up on political developments of the Palestinian cause and the Arab-Israeli conflict, activating the Arab Peace Initiative, Israeli developments and violations in the occupied city of Jerusalem, supporting the budget of the State of Palestine and the steadfastness of the Palestinian people, Arab water security and the theft of water by Israel in the occupied Arab territories, and the occupied Syrian Arab Golan.
The meeting also discusses a number of permanent items related to Arab affairs and national security, including developments in Libya, Yemen, Sudan and Somalia, solidarity with Lebanon and developments in Syria
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