Joe Biden To Act "Methodically" In Re-Evaluating Saudi Relationship Over Oil

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US President Joe Biden will act” methodically” in deciding how to respond to Saudi Arabia over oil painting affair cuts, but options include changes to US security backing, White House public security counsel Jake Sullivan said on Sunday.Mr Sullivan, speaking on CNN, said no changes to the US- Saudi relationship were imminent as Mr Bidenre-evaluates it.

and so the chairman is not going act rashly. He’s going to act methodically, strategically and he is going to take his time to consult with members of both parties, and also to have an occasion for Congress to return so that he can sit with them in person and work through the options,” Mr Sullivan said.

A day after OPEC oil painting directors last week blazoned affair cuts over US expostulations, Mr Biden pledged to put” consequences” on Saudi Arabia for siding with Russia in supporting the cuts. The OPEC move undermines Western countries’ plans to put a cap on the price of Russian oil painting exports in response to Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

US Senator Bob Menendez, a Democrat who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called for a halt to utmost US arms deals to Saudi Arabia after the OPEC move.

Mr Biden’s options” include changes to our approach to security backing to Saudi Arabia, but I am not going to get ahead of the chairman. What I’ll say is there is nothing imminent,” Mr Sullivan said, adding that there was time for Mr Biden to consult with Congress.

Mr Sullivan said Mr Biden has no plans to meet with Saudi Arabia’sde-facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, at a G20 leaders peak in November in Indonesia.

Asked whether Mr Biden would view Russia’s use of a small politic nuclear armament or crumping one in the Black Sea as less serious than a larger lemon, Mr Sullivan said it was” dangerous” to draw similar distinctions, and the chairman would not do so.

The use of a nuclear armament on the battleground in Ukraine is the use of a nuclear armament on the battleground in Ukraine. We are not going to slice the salami,” Mr Sullivan added.

He said it was peremptory upon NATO abettors and other responsible countries, including China and India, to” shoot a veritably clear and decisive communication to Russia that they shouldn’t contemplate the use of nuclear munitions in this conflict.”