President Joe Biden has told Arab leaders that the United States “will not walk away” from the Middle East.
. Biden later said he did not shy away from discussing Khashoggi's killing when he and the crown prince met.The topic created a “frosty” start to the discussion, according to a U.S. official familiar with the private conversations.
The Saudi-owned Al Arabiya news network, citing an unnamed Saudi source, reported that Prince Mohammed responded to Biden's mention of Khashoggi by saying that attempts to impose a set of values can backfire. He also said the U.S. had committed mistakes at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, where detainees were tortured, and pressed Biden on the killing ofMeantime, there are sharp divisions on foreign policy among the nine Mideast heads of state who attended the summit.
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