{"id":28866,"date":"2019-01-12T17:23:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T17:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28866"},"modified":"2019-01-12T17:23:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T17:23:17","slug":"pompeo-us-relationship-with-saudi-arabia-essential-for-middle-east-stability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28866","title":{"rendered":"Pompeo: US relationship with Saudi Arabia essential for Middle East stability"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1434411\/middle-east\" readability=\"75\">\n<p>\nLONDON: The United States&#8217;\u00a0relationship with Saudi Arabia is essential to the Middle East\u2019s stability and security, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nThe\u00a0US secretary of state told Al Arabiya\u00a0that America\u00a0wants an\u00a0Arab coalition and force that is capable of facing the different challenges in the region. He added that the US will not be leaving the Middle East, and that destroying Daesh is a priority.<\/p>\n<p>\nPompeo is on a\u00a0whistlestop regional tour aimed at reassuring US allies after President Donald Trump\u2019s shock decision to withdraw all US troops from Syria.\u00a0He was in Abu Dhabi on Saturday after a visit to Bahrain on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe told Al Arabiya that the US\u00a0withdrawal from\u00a0Syria does not contradict its\u00a0strategy towards Iran, and nor does it mean a retreat with regards to fighting terrorism.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Iranian people should know that interfering in the affairs of other states is \u201cunacceptable,\u201d and\u00a0the US wants to hear the voice of the Iranian people, Pompeo said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nThe US top diplomat has also visited\u00a0Cairo, Amman, Baghdad, and the Iraqi Kurdish regional capital of Irbil.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe United States plans to jointly host a global summit focused on the Middle East, particularly Iran, next month in Poland, the US\u00a0State Department said on Friday. The gathering will take place in Warsaw from Feb. 13 to Feb. 14, it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\nUS\u00a0Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News in an interview\u00a0on Friday that the meeting would &#8220;focus on Middle East stability and peace and freedom and security here in this region, and that includes an important element of making sure that Iran is not a destabilizing influence.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nPompeo said that a number of matters would be discussed at the summit, the most important of which would be Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: The United States&#8217;\u00a0relationship with Saudi Arabia is essential to the Middle East\u2019s stability and security, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Saturday.\u00a0 The\u00a0US secretary of state told Al Arabiya\u00a0that America\u00a0wants an\u00a0Arab coalition and force that is capable of facing the different challenges in the region. He added that the US will not&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}