WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama will visit Saudi Arabia on June 3 for talks on Iran’s nuclear program and Washington’s renewed push for a Middle East peace plan, the White House said yesterday.
Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter, has been a key player in the drive for a solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which Obama has declared a top foreign policy priority.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Obama would meet Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah and would also discuss terrorism.
The Kingdom is among the United States’ top 15 trading partners. After Saudi Arabia, Obama will travel on to Egypt, where he is scheduled to give a major policy speech to the Muslim world.
