Crown Prince Saudi Arabia Mohammed Bin Salman told President Trump on Wednesday that the Kingdom intends to increase his investment and trade with the United States by at least $ 600 billion in the next four years, according to Official Saudi news agency.
The Crown Prince, de facto leader of Saudi Arabia, told Mr. Trump that his new administration had the ability to create an “economic prosperity of unprecedented” in the United States, and that the Kingdom would be able to participate, a statement of the Saudi print agency said.
In a statement to the public, the White House said this conversation was the first call of Mr. Trump with a foreign leader and said that the two talked about the Middle East as the “international economic ambitions” of the kingdoms and ways to “increase the common prosperity” of the two countries.
Mr. Trump promised to accelerate investments in the United States, especially to help revive production. During last year’s campaign, he said he would use a a mixture of tax and duty reduction force companies to invest in the United States.
Tuesday, Mr Trump She posted the star’s doorA joint venture of Openi, Softbank and Oracle, who intends to create an artificial intelligence infrastructure worth at least $ 100 billion. The initiative could make as much as $ 500 billion over four years.
Saudi Arabia was Mr Trump’s first cell on his first overseas trip as a president in 2017, which is a reflection of the importance he attached to his relationship with the Crown Prince. During this term of office, the United States concluded great jobs with the kingdom, including the sale of weapons.
Since then, Mr. Trump and his family have signed several personal business contracts in the Bay region, especially in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Trump’s organization has announced several projects in Saudi Arabia in December, and also presented Trump Tower worth $ 533 million in Jeddah with the gift of Global, a global branch of Saudi real estate company Dar Al Arkan. I Dar Al Arkan and his Branch Dar Global are private companies but are close relationships Saudi government.
Jared Kushner, Trump’s son -in -law, too provided an investment of $ 2 billion from the Saudi Government Fund for his private capital company six months after Mr. Trump left the White House 2021.
“One thing is for sure, both Trump and MBS are fluent in the language of business,” said Salman Al-Ansari, a geopolitical analyst from Saudi Arabia, using a widely widespread abbreviation of the names of the Crown Prince.
Mr. Trump he told reporters In the oval office on Monday that Saudi Arabia was his first foreign station during his previous term because they “agreed to buy our product worth $ 450 billion.”
That Saudi Arabia wants to “buy another 450 or 500”, he said, “I think I would probably go there,” for my first overseas trip in his second term.
In the spring, before his choice, Trump is g talked to the Crown Prince. It was not clear what they talked about and whether it was the only conversation that had been running since Mr. Trump left duty.
During the campaign of Mr Trump told Al Arabiya, a Saudi -owned television house that he had “so much respect for Mohammed, who is so great.”
Mr. Trump stood with the Crown Prince after the murder of the Washington Post-Jamal Khashoggi 2018 columnist, despite the CIA estimation yes Crown Prince probably approved of the murder and pieces Mr. Khashoggi.
State Secretary Marco Rubio also spoke with Saudi Crown Prince, in a telephone conversation during which they talked about “the power of the American-Saudi partnership at this time of major changes,” said State Department. In 2018, while he was a senator, Mr. Rubio said there was “no doubt“The Saudi Crown Prince was involved in the murder of Khashoggi.
The second focus of Trump’s administration is to persuade Saudi Arabia to join Abraham’s agreementThe agreement concluded during the first term of Mr Trump, which resulted in the establishment of official diplomatic relations of several Arab countries with Israel.
In a report published on Thursday morning by the Saudi print agency, Saudis said that Mr Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed also talked about “ways of promoting peace, security and stability in the Middle East”, although no discussion is mentioned in a statement expanding these agreements.
On Monday, Mr. Trump also talked about these agreements at the oval office. He told reporters: “I don’t think you have to push them. I think that will happen, but maybe not yet. But they will end up in agreements, Abraham’s agreements. ” When asked when he expects both sides to sign a new agreement, Mr. Trump replied, “Soon.”
Last year Crown Prince Mohammed stated that the kingdom would not normalize relations with Israel Without providing the acknowledgment of Palestinian statehood, an position that marked a shift over earlier statements.
