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Trump advertises Saudi relationship as a “basic rock for security and prosperity” in the middle of 600 billion US dollars

President Trump made comments on a US investment summit on Tuesday when the White House announced an investment of $ 600 billion from Saudi Arabia, including what it had advertised as “largest defense contracts in history”.

In Saudi Arabia, the President stopped the country as an example of the Middle East and said that it was a “modern miracle on the Arabic path”, beating the “Western intervention” and broke the former President Joe Biden.

Mr. Trump and Crown Prinz Mohammed Bin Salman, also known as MBS, announced several economic and defense agreements, a reference to Mr. Trump's intention to deepen the US sucking, despite the many years of concerns from reports from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and human rights groups on the limitation of civil freedom, political rights and women's rights.

In the Saudi US investment forum, the president said that it was an “enormous honor” to be invited back to Saudi Arabia, where his first foreign trip took place in 2017, and I described Salman as a “friend”. US secret services Bin Salman ordered the murder of the Washington Post Jamal Khashoggi in October 2018, but the United States found that he had immunity due to its role as Saudi Prime Minister.

“The relationship between the USA and Saudi was a foundation of security and prosperity,” said Trump on Tuesday. “Today we have confirmed this important bond and we take the next steps to make our relationship closer, stronger and more powerful than ever before.”

Mr. Trump said Riad, the capital of Saudi Arabia, “will not only be a seat of government, but also a big business, a cultural and high-tech capital of the whole world.”

“It is crucial for the broader world to know that this great transformation does not come from western interventions or flying people in beautiful aircraft who give them lectures on how to live and how to go on their own affairs, no,” he said.

“The shiny marbles from Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so -called builders, neocons or liberal non -profit organizations such as those who spent trillion and trillion dollars, the Kabul, Baghdad, so many other cities,” he said. “Instead, the birth of a modern Middle East was brought by the people in the region themselves. In the end, the so -called national builders destroyed far more nations than they built, and the interventionalists entered into complex companies that they did not even understand themselves.”

“In recent years, far too many American presidents have been affected by the idea that it is our job to examine the souls of foreign leaders and use the US policy to sell justice for their sins,” added the president.

In particular, the President and the Crown Prince signed agreements on the legal cooperation between the Ministry of Justice in Saudi and the US Ministry of Justice, the coordination between the Pentagon and the Saudi Ministry of Defense for the modernization and development of the skills of the Saudi armed forces; And an international partnership program between the Saudi Ministry of the Interior and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The contract package includes “extensive training and support to build the capacity of the Saudi armed forces, including improving Saudi services and military medical services,” said the White House. It also contains billions of dollars in investments in US calculation centers.

Mr. Trump also said on Tuesday that he would change to normalize relationships and to raise sanctions against the new government in Syria in order to give the country “a chance in peace”.

“There is a new government that will hopefully be successful,” said Trump about Syria. “I say good luck, Syria. Show us something special.”

The president earned in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, the first stop on a four-day trip to the Middle East for Mr. Trump. The trip is his first of his second term. The President also visited Saudi Arabia in front of every other nation during his first term in the White House – the tradition for presidents to take their first foreign trip to the United Kingdom, one of the strongest allies in the United States.

After the Air Force One had been brought into landing by Saudi fighter planes, Mr. Trump was welcomed by the airport in Riad by the Kingdom of the Kingdom, the Crown Prince. After a coffee ceremony, Trump then went to the Royal Court, where he and I got a lavender carpet down when trumpets marked the arrival of the president.

After the arrival ceremony, the president took part in a delegation meeting and a bilateral session.

Mr. Trump made the crown prince a compliment during her bilateral meeting and called him “wise over his years”. The president also said that the Saudi prince is considering a purchase of $ 600 billion in military equipment, but joked that it could be $ 1 trillion.

The two managers also took part in a business lunch with remarkable CEOs such as Elon Musk, Larry Fink and Stephen Schwarzman. Mr. Trump said the managing directors are expected to go away from the visit “with many checks”.

For the Trump White House, Saudi Arabia is of essential diplomatic importance, especially in the middle of the continuing efforts to negotiate a deal with Iran about his nuclear program, and with the Israel Hamas War, which is still raging in Gaza. On Tuesday, the President and Crown Prince had private talks on Tuesday, which are expected to include a wide range of topics, from the Iranian nuclear program to the war war and in chess prices.

The visit also concentrated on the business because the president tried to strengthen relationships with the partner of the Middle East. And Joining Mr. Trump at the Investment Summit Were Expected to Be Some High Profile Business Leaders, Including Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Palantir's Alex Karp, Citigroup's Jane Fraser, Blackrock's Larry Fink, Franklin Templeton Investments's Jenny Johnson, Uber's Dara Khosrowshahi, Bdt & MSD Partners' Dina Powell McCormick and Blackstone's Steve Schwarzman, according to several sources that are familiar with the event.

Later this week, Mr. Trump will travel to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. Qatar offered to donate a Jumbo Jet Donations from the royal family of Katar for Mr. Trump's exclusive use as a presidential aircraft.

Mr. Trump defended to accept the gift of the aircraft and say on Monday: “I could be a stupid person and say: Oh no, we don't want a free plane.”

And Jennifer Jacobs contributed to this report.

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