President Biden Announces Million Dollar Aid for Food Security in the Middle East
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, announced this Saturday at the summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council in the port city of Jeddah, in the Red Sea, the sum of one billion dollars in aid with the purpose of collaborating in the security food.
Biden also confirmed that the leaders of the Persian Gulf committed three billion dollars to invest in infrastructure and other related projects.
Currently, part of North Africa and the countries of the Middle East are experiencing a food crisis due to the war declared on Ukraine and the restriction measures that Moscow has marked with respect to the export of products.
The president of the United States has held several conferences and meetings in the company of Iraq, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, in turn, he attended the summit called GCC + 3 this Saturday.
The summit was made up of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), an alliance of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman, as well as Egypt, Iraq and Jordan.
Jake Sullivan, national security adviser reported at a press conference this Friday that Joe Biden would address other issues besides food security this Saturday, he said:
"From security to the economy, to regional integration, to cooperation on the great global challenges of our time, to human rights, to vigorously defending America's values and the president's personal priorities."
In addition to this, he assured that Biden traveled to Israel and Saudi Arabia to "mark ground" in these countries, presenting his flag in the territories and with this, not allowing China or Russia to invade the lands with the purpose of filling the absence of leadership in the region.
It is worth noting that, precisely, a year ago the American country withdrew its troops from Afghanistan and put an end to the war that it had sustained with the Middle East for more than a decade.
News outlets have closely followed Biden's trip to the Middle East, especially in Saudi Arabia where his interactions with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman have caused a stir.
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The communications that the highest president of the North American country and the one who presides over the leadership by inheritance from Saudi Arabia have had have been criticized, since, from afar, the United States accused him of a murder of a journalist born in his lands, in addition At one point, Biden stressed that he would make Saudi a "pariah."
When greeting the prince in Jeddah, Joe gave the prince a fist bump, an action that was criticized by many, as it reflects, according to public opinion, a double message from the leader of the White House. Among so many inconveniences that the parties have had, an official exclaimed:
"It would have been a relapse if the president didn't come to the region and it would be a relapse if he didn't and wasn't willing to sit down and raise human rights concerns with foreign leaders around the world."
Biden traveled with the purpose of consolidating many economic agreements, in addition to trying to normalize the decline in gasoline in the United States a bit. Despite this, his administration does not consider these issues to be finished, rather they maintain that price increases will continue in the North American country.
It should be noted that for some time there have been attempts to establish positive relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, diplomatic bridges have been built, but agreements between the two countries still need to be consolidated.
At the end of Donald Trump's mandate, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan normalized relations with Israel in 2020.