US Sec State Blinken To Travel To Saudi Arabia June 6-8

US State Department spokesperson Matt Miller has revealed that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Saudi Arabia June 6-8 to meet with Saudi officials to discuss, "US-Saudi strategic cooperation on regional and global issues and a range of bilateral issues including economic and security cooperation.”

• On June 7, Blinken will attend a ministerial session of US-Gulf Cooperation Council "to promote security, stability, de-escalation, regional integration, and economic opportunities across the Middle East."
• On June 8, Blinken, "will co-host a Ministerial meeting of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS with Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan [...] to address the continuing threat of ISIS and reaffirm our commitment to ensure its enduring defeat."
• Semafor reported this morning that, “Riyadh has proposed to visiting American leaders developing a joint U.S.-Saudi project to build the country’s civilian nuclear energy program.”
  • Semafor: “The project — referred to as “nuclear Aramco” — is designed to bolster Saudi Arabia’s ambitions to produce, and potentially export, atomic energy, while also addressing U.S. and international concerns about the proliferation of nuclear weapons technology.”