Snubbed: Most Gulf Arab rulers send deputies to Obama summit by Hany Ghoraba
The monarchs of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain have chosen to send deputies to the US-Gulf Arab summit. With two other leaders too ill to travel, this means only the Qatari and Kuwaiti heads of state will be at the Camp David meeting later this week.
Just hours after the White House announced President Barack Obama would meet with the Saudi king Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the government in Riyadh clarified on Friday that king Salman would not be showing up in Washington after all.
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Saudi foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir announced that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef would head the delegation instead. He will be accompanied by the king’s son, Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
In a statement from the Saudi Embassy in Washington, Jubeir said the decision was made “due to the timing of the summit, the scheduled humanitarian ceasefire in Yemen and the opening of the King Salman Center for Humanitarian Aid,” according to Reuters.
Meanwhile, the island kingdom of Bahrain announced that its delegation would be led by Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa. Bahrain provides a base for the US Navy’s 5th Fleet, which operates in the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean… Read more on RT from
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