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Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman heads to Egypt on start of tour
He will also visit Jordan and Turkey
FILE. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Photo: AFP.
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman headed to Egypt on Monday, state news agency SPA said, starting his first tour outside the Gulf region in over three years. He will also visit Jordan and Turkey.
The prince’s trip comes ahead of next month’s visit to the region by US President Joe Biden, who is expected to meet Arab leaders in Saudi Arabia after a visit to Israel, with the Ukraine conflict and regional security on the agenda.
Prince Mohammed will hold talks with the leaders of Egypt, Jordan and Turkey on strengthening bilateral cooperation and matters of joint interest, SPA said.
Sources have said the crown prince and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi would discuss issues including the impact of the Ukraine war and preparations for Biden’s trip to the region in mid-July.
The prince is expected to head to Amman on Tuesday for talks with King Abdullah to improve ties strained by regional rivalries and unfulfilled Saudi pledges to shore up Jordan’s struggling economy, diplomats and sources with knowledge of the plans said.
This would be the prince’s first tour outside the Gulf since the Covid-19 pandemic. MbS visited Egypt in 2018 and Japan in 2019.
Khashoggi’s killing at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul had strained the kingdom’s ties with Washington and Ankara.
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Biden said on Friday he was not travelling to Saudi Arabia explicitly to meet MbS but was seeing the crown prince as part of a broader “international meeting” expected to include leaders from Gulf Arab states, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has moved to mend ties with Riyadh and visited the kingdom in April in the first high-level trip in years.
He would host Prince Mohammed on Wednesday. Analysts say Saudi funding could help alleviate Turkey’s economic woes.
“A new era will begin and there will be full normalisation. Within the scope of the visit, some agreements will be signed in the fields of energy, economy and security,” a senior Turkish official said.
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