The president of the United States, Donald Trump, arrived in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to begin a four -day change through the Gulf region, focusing more on the economic agreements than on the security crises ranging from the war in Gaza to the threat of climbing on Iran’s nuclear program.
With a who is who of the powerful American business leaders in tow, including the Tesla CEO and the Trump Elon Musk advisor, will first visit Riyadh, site of a Saudi-US investment forum, and will go to Qatar on Wednesday and the United Arab Emirates on Thursday, but did not visit Israel.
“While energy remains a cornerstone of our relationship, investments and business opportunities in the kingdom have expanded and multiplied many, many times more,” said Saudi Investment Minister Khalid Al-Falih, while opening the forum.
“As a result … when the Saudi and the Americans join forces happen very good things, most of the time great things happen when those companies join,” he said before Trump’s arrival.
The Saudi-US Investment Forum began with a video that shows very high eagles and hawks, celebrating the long history between the United States and the kingdom.
On the front of a palatial room he sat down to Larry Fink, the Blackrock CEO, Stephen A. Schwartzman, CEO of Blackstone, the secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besent and the Minister of Saudi Finance, Mohammed al Jadaan and Khalid.
Speaking in a forum panel when Trump landed in Riad, Fink said he had visited Saudi Arabia more than 65 times more than 20 years. He said the kingdom had been a follower when he began visiting, but now he was “taking control” and expanding his economy out of his oil base.
Saudi Arabia and the United States have maintained strong ties for decades based on an Ironclad provision in which the kingdom delivers oil and superpower provides security.
Saudi combat aircraft F-15 appeared on both sides of Air Force One, sailing very close to accompany Trump to the kingdom, according to a report of the pool of a pool Wall Street Journal reporter.
Trump has also said that he can travel to Türkiye on Thursday for possible face to face between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in the War of Russia in Ukraine.
Trump’s second foreign trip since he returned to the presidency, the first was Rome for Pope Francis’s funeral, he arrives at a time of geopolitical tension.
In addition to pressing for an agreement in Ukraine, its administration is pressing for a new mechanism for help for Gaza after 19 months of war and urging Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree on a new agreement of high fire there.
During the weekend, American and Iranian negotiators met in Oman to discuss a possible agreement to stop Tehran’s nuclear program. Trump has threatened military action against Iran if diplomacy fails.
In addition to the possible lateral trip of Türkiye, these issues are not the focus of the Trump’s Swing Swing as is now scheduled.
The United States, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the EAUs to announce investments that could reach the billion are expected. Saudi Arabia already pledged in January $ 600 billion in investments in the United States over the next four years, but Trump has said he will ask for a complete billion.
The Secretary of State and the National Security Advisor, Marco Rubio, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth travel with the president.
Trump is expected to offer Saudi Arabia a package of weapons worth more than $ 100 billion, Fuentes said Reuters. This could include a variety of advanced weapons that include C-130 transport aircraft.
The United States and Saudi Arabia are expected to avoid the issue of normalization between Riad and Israel, the sources said. ReutersAlthough it is Trump’s most durable geopolitical objective in the region.
The envoy of the Middle East of Trump, Steve Witkoff, said last week that he expected the imminent progress of expanding Abraham’s agreements, a set of agreements negotiated by Trump in his first mandate by which the Arab states, including the EAU, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco, recognized Israel.
But Netanyahu’s opposition to a permanent stop to the war in Gaza or Reuters
It is expected that Trump’s second and third stops, in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, concentrate on economic issues.
The Royal Family of Qatar is expected to give Trump a luxury plane Boeing 747-8 to be equipped for use as Air Force One, an agreement that has caused a scrutiny of ethical experts.
Trump is expected to donate the plane to his presidential library for use after his mandate is finished.
