The White Home has introduced that Nationwide Safety Adviser Jake Sullivan needed to postpone a scheduled journey to Saudi Arabia this week as a result of he cracked a rib in a minor accident.
Particulars on what brought on the accident weren’t launched, however White Home spokesperson John Kirby stated Wednesday that the incident was “of his personal” doing that affected his capability to journey.
“It was not attributable to anyone,” he stated. “It was not the results of a nefarious act.”
Sullivan, 47, was slated to fulfill with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman amid a U.S. push to clean over relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia—talks that come amid rising regional tensions after a purported Israeli airstrike killed a high Iranian basic in Syria this week.
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Kirby stated Sullivan is wanting ahead to rescheduling the journey, however didn’t present a date.
There had been plans to host talks to normalize relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel final yr, however these plans had been thwarted by the Oct. 7 assault in Israel by Hamas. Talks had picked up once more in latest months, however a high U.S. official has solely been on the bottom in Saudi Arabia—Secretary of State Antony Blinken, final month—as soon as since October.
As a part of a normalization deal, Reuters reported that Saudi Arabia desires to clinch a mutual protection pact with Washington that’d see the U.S. help its civil nuclear program.
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