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| Barack Obama Hosts Powerful Saudi Prince At White House Today
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 17-June-2016
10:34:15 AM |
| US President Barack Obama hosted youthful Saudi Arabian Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House today, underscoring his guest's meteoric rise and increasingly pivotal role in managing strained US-Saudi ties.
The 30-year-old deputy crown prince -- who has become the driving force behind economic reform and a more activist Saudi foreign policy -- swept into the West Wing with a band of aides.
Mohammed bin Salman is the King's son and the country's defense minister, but he has met the very biggest of Washington's big hitters during a week-long visit.
He held talks with the CIA director, the secretaries of state, defense and treasury, as well as leading members of Congress.
The White House said Prince Mohammed's meeting with Obama will take place in the Oval Office -- a rare honor for a non-head of state, one not afforded to the Dalai Lama earlier in the week.
Little is certain about the inner workings of the House of Saud, but the prince's high public
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