Tillerson: "We're Charting a Renewed Path Toward a Peaceful Middle East"Townhall, May 20, 2017, Jennifer Van Laarf
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir gave a joint address in Riyadh Saturday announcing a "new strategic partnership" between the two countries that will chart a "renewed path toward a peaceful Middle East."
In agreements signed Saturday, 23 foreign investment export licenses were granted, totaling around "$350 billion of historic direct investment" that will "result in hundreds of thousands of American jobs created in these direct investments in purchases of American goods...equipment, technology."
The renewed partnership, "based on trust...cooperation, and a shared interest," Tillerson says, "...sends a very strong message to our common enemies, it strengthens the bonds between us...and will guide our path forward. America's security at home is strengthened when Saudi Arabia's security is strong as well."
Al-Jubier appropriated one of President Trump's phrases in his remarks, reiterating his government's desire to eliminate extremism:
We will have truly changed our world and we will truly drowned the voices of extremism and we will have drained the swamp from which extremism and terrorism emanates.”
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