Analysis

ISRAEL-PALESTINE PEACE

With Abbas Visit, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Reaffirms Support for Palestine

• SUSTG Team
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• 12. 21. 2017

Saudi Arabia's King Salman reaffirmed Saudi Arabia’s longstanding support for the Palestinian cause during a meeting with Mahmoud Abbas at Al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh on Wednesday, in the wake of President Trump's controversial move to recognize East Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

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  Saudi 2018 Budget will be ‘Expansionary’ after Two Years of Tight Spending

  SUSTG Team  |  12. 18. 2017

• Iran in the Region

  

  Ambassador Haley Gives Dramatic Presentation of Alleged Iran-Made Weaponry Recovered from Regional Battlefields

  SUSTG Team  |  12. 15. 2017

  US envoy to the United Nations Nikki Haley made a presentation at Bolling Air Force base in Washington, D.C. to provide evidence that Iran had supplied short-range ballistic missiles to Houthi rebels in Yemen which were then fired at Saudi Arabia.

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  Secretary Tillerson Urges More ‘Measured’ Approach for Saudi Arabia in Yemen

  SUSTG Team  |  12. 8. 2017

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  The U.S. Reported to be Assessing Support of Saudi Arabia’s Nuclear Energy Plans

  SUSTG Team  |  11. 30. 2017

• Saudi Arabia in the Media

  

  NYT Columnist Tom Friedman Praises Saudi Arabia’s ‘Arab Spring, At Last’; Twitter Reacts

  SUSTG Team  |  11. 27. 2017

  New York Times Columnist and bestselling author Tom Friedman met with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Saudi Arabia for a second time in three years to speak with the powerful and young leader about the ongoing Vision 2030 social and economic reform plans. Twitter had mixed reactions.

• KAFD

  

  Saudi Arabia’s PIF Officially Takes Over Management of Riyadh’s King Abdullah Financial District

  SUSTG Team  |  11. 22. 2017

  Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund finalized the take over of the management of Riyadh's US$10 billion unfinished King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD), a large financial hub on the outskirts of the city, as the government attempts to revive the project.

• Crackdown on Corruption

  

  In WSJ Op-Ed, Al-Qassabi Says Kingdom Will Not Avoid Short-Term Difficult Decisions to Eradicate Corruption, Actualize Vision 2030

  SUSTG Team  |  11. 14. 2017

  In a op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal, Saudi Arabia's Minister of Commerce and Investment Dr. Majed Al-Qassabi addresses critics of the Kingdom's anti-corruption efforts and says the actions taken last week are evidence Saudi Arabia

• U.S.-Saudi Relations

  

  Secretary Tillerson, in Riyadh, Pledges Support for Saudi-Iraq Relationship to Counter Iran

  SUSTG Team  |  10. 23. 2017

  U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited Riyadh over the weekend to express U.S. support for a warming of relations between Saudi Arabia and Iraq as the two nations inaugurate the first meeting of the Saudi-Iraq Coordination Council, a new organization that will facilitate bilateral ties.

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  Saudi Aramco Denies Financial Times Report on Shelving Long-Awaited IPO

  SUSTG Team  |  10. 16. 2017