The US State Department confirmed that it has close relations with the Turkish government, adding that Ankara is “a valuable ally for us.”

This was stated by US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller in his daily press conference while responding to a question about the extent of Washington’s concern that the sanctions imposed on Turkish companies would negatively affect Sweden’s membership in NATO.

In this regard, he said: “I do not think that the sanctions imposed on Turkish companies will have any impact on Sweden’s membership in NATO.”

He added: “We have constructive and close relations with the Turkish government. Turkey is a valuable ally for us and President Joe Biden recently met with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan.”

Miller stated that the sanctions imposed on Turkish companies have nothing to do with Sweden’s membership in NATO and that Ankara was informed of the American interest in Stockholm joining NATO.

It is noteworthy that the US Treasury Department announced earlier the inclusion of 3 companies based in Turkey and a Turkish citizen on the sanctions list under the pretext of supporting Russia in avoiding the sanctions imposed on it.

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Spot gold prices held steady at the beginning of weekly trading on Monday, despite the official announcement of an initial agreement to end the debt ceiling crisis in the United States.

And at dawn Sunday, US President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached a preliminary agreement to end the US debt ceiling crisis that has been going on for more than two months.

“The negotiating teams will put the final touches on the legislative text, and the agreement will go to the country’s House of Representatives and Senate,” the White House said in a statement on Sunday.

In early trading today, spot gold prices rose by 0.15 percent, or two dollars, to $1,947 an ounce, compared to the closing of Friday’s session.

Despite reaching an agreement to end the debt ceiling crisis that would lead to a decline in risks, which is a suitable environment for the rise of gold prices, the yellow metal still benefits from high global demand, especially from China.

Likewise, gold prices benefit from analysts’ estimates indicating a rise in its prices during the current year above $2,100 an ounce, with the possibility of the end of the monetary tightening cycle by the US Federal Reserve.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that his country will host in 2024 the Sixteenth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.

This came in a speech via video call, Thursday, during the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, at the invitation of US President Joe Biden.

Erdogan thanked Biden for his determination to keep this important issue on the agenda and for inviting him to the forum, as well as their support for Turkey in its struggle against the earthquake that struck the south of the country last February.

He pointed out that the flood disaster that occurred in the same region after the earthquake left the country once again facing the devastating effects of climate change, stressing that Turkey had applied the national risk shield model to make the country more resilient in the face of all disasters.

He said, “Turkey will host in 2024 the Sixteenth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, and in this way it will assume the rotating presidency of the Convention for a period of two years.”

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Washington, DC, will host a consultative meeting within the framework of the “Turkish-American Strategic Mechanism” tomorrow, Thursday.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday that Deputy Minister Sedat Unal, his US counterpart Wendy Sherman and US State Department political affairs advisor Victoria Nuland will hold a consultative meeting in Washington on September 15 within the framework of the strategic mechanism between the two countries.

It is expected that the two sides will discuss bilateral relations between the two countries and regional and international issues, according to the statement.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his American counterpart Joe Biden agreed to form the joint strategic mechanism during their meeting last October in the Italian capital, Rome, on the sidelines of the G20 summit.

The first meeting within the framework of the mechanism was held in the Turkish capital, Ankara, on April 4, while the first meeting at the level of the foreign ministers of the two countries was held in New York on May 16.

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US President Joe Biden left Saudi Arabia without the minimum expectations of global energy markets, which suggested that they would accept his call to increase oil production in order to calm the markets.

No statements related to the global energy market were issued by the Gulf states, with the exception of Saudi Arabia – the godmother of the “OPEC” alliance – specifically Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

In the final statement of the Jeddah Summit for Security and Development, it was reported that the leaders praised the existing efforts of “OPEC” to achieve stability in global oil markets, in a manner that serves the interests of producers and consumers, and supports economic growth.

The leaders welcomed the recent decision of OPEC members to increase production for the months of July and August, and expressed their appreciation for the leading role of Saudi Arabia in achieving consensus among the coalition countries.

American media, along with investment bank strategists there, began talking about Biden’s failure to obtain oil commitments from Gulf leaders during the Arab summit in Jeddah.

American energy markets are aware that the main objective of his visit to the Gulf states is to ask their leaders to continue pumping more oil, which would lead to lower gas prices in the United States.

Biden fears that rising fuel prices in the US market will bring him down during the midterm elections scheduled for later November.

It is sufficient for the US Energy Information Administration to publish oil price developments during the era of the last 3 American presidents to show the sharp increase during Biden’s term, a black mark in his current era.

Saudi Arabia has made it clear through the Saudi Crown Prince and on the air that it will not be able in the future to increase production above 13 million barrels per day.

Currently, Saudi Arabia’s production is about 11 million barrels, and it has an immediate ability to increase production to 12 million barrels, and about 13 million barrels per day by 2027, after the completion of the current development work.

And while the pro-Biden American media saw Saudi statements about increasing production to 13 million barrels per day as a victory for the president, in reality it is not.

On May 16, 2022, Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said that the kingdom is on its way to increase its oil production capacity by more than one million barrels per day to more than 13 million barrels per day by the end of 2026 or the beginning of 2027.

OPEC estimates that the daily demand for crude oil by 2027 will be approximately 105 million barrels per day, which means that producers need additional investments in the oil industry to meet demand.

But before this date, Biden needs to pass the midterm elections successfully, as expectations indicate that he will resort to the last card in the energy sector, represented by the abolition of the federal tax on fuel, which amounts to approximately 18.4 cents per liter.

The US president’s clash in the energy sector was not limited to the Gulf countries, but the production of American energy companies had a share in this, as he accused them of profiting in a difficult global economic circumstance.

On Saturday evening, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan told reporters: “We listen to our partners and friends from all over the world, especially oil-consuming countries, but in the end, OPEC follows the market situation and provides energy supplies as needed.”

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A Gulf-US statement on Saturday revealed its intention to provide $11 billion, including $10 billion in Arab support to face food security challenges in the world.

This came according to a joint statement of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries and the United States, which was reported by the Saudi Press Agency after the end of the Jeddah summit, in which US President Joe Biden and nine Arab leaders participated.

The statement stated that Washington “welcomed the decision of the Arab Coordination Group, which includes ten national, Arab and specialized development financing institutions, to provide an amount.

Not less than $10 billion in response to regional and international food security challenges.

He added, “The leaders welcomed the announcement by the United States of America to provide additional support worth one billion (billion) dollars to meet the urgent food security needs in the short and long term to the Middle East and North Africa.”

And he added: “The leaders affirmed their support to ensure that the Gulf region is free of all weapons of mass destruction.”

He stressed the “centrality of diplomatic efforts to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, and to confront terrorism and all activities destabilizing security and stability.”

According to the statement, “the leaders discussed the development of integration and integration in the areas of air and missile defense, maritime security capabilities, early warning systems and information exchange.”

The leaders also welcomed, “the establishment of (Joint Task Force 153) and (Joint Task Force 59).

which strengthen defense partnership and coordination between the countries of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf and the US Central Command.

This supports the monitoring of maritime threats and develops maritime defenses.

The statement continued, that President Biden “welcomed the announcement by a number of partners from the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, their plans to invest a total of 3 billion dollars.

and in projects consistent with the objectives of the Global Investment and Infrastructure Partnership Initiative announced by the United States.

Biden also expressed his “appreciation for the donation of one hundred million dollars by the Gulf Cooperation Council to support the East Jerusalem Hospital Network.

which provides essential and life-saving health care to Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.

The countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council welcomed, according to the statement, “the US President’s affirmation that Washington stands ready to work collectively with the members of the Council.”

This is to deter and confront all external threats to their security, and against any threats to vital waterways, especially Bab al-Mandab and the Strait of Hormuz.

The Gulf Cooperation Council includes Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait and the Sultanate of Oman.

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The arrival of the Gulf and Arab leaders participating in the Jeddah summit on Saturday was completed, with the participation of US President Joe Biden in his first visit to the Kingdom since his assumption of the presidency.

Biden will participate in the summit, coming Friday, from visiting Israel and the Palestinian territories, along with the leaders of Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, the Sultanate of Oman, Egypt, Jordan and Iraq.

According to the Saudi Press Agency, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received, on Saturday, at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, his Kuwaiti counterpart, Mishaal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and his Emirati counterpart, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

The Saudi Crown Prince also received Asaad bin Tariq Al Said, Deputy Prime Minister and Special Representative of the Sultan of Oman.

The King of Bahrain, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, the King of Jordan, King Abdullah II Ibn Al Hussein, and the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.

On Friday, the Saudi Crown Prince received his Bahraini counterpart, Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi, at Jeddah Airport.

The summit is known as the “Jeddah Summit for Security and Development”, according to official Saudi media.

This is Biden’s first visit to Saudi Arabia since taking office on January 20, 2021, and the 12th for the eighth US president in 5 decades.

He is the first American president to travel from Israel to the Saudi city of Jeddah.

The visit comes after a “tension” in Saudi-American relations, especially with Biden’s accession to power, according to observers, before the latter talked about reorienting relations with the Kingdom.

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US President Joe Biden will meet later Friday with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah for a meeting that “the Saudi king will not attend.”

The White House said Thursday that Biden will meet with the Saudi crown prince in Jeddah “without the presence of King (Salman bin Abdulaziz),” according to the American “CNN” network on Friday.

According to Biden’s schedule, the Saudi monarch will only attend about 30 minutes of bilateral meetings on Friday evening, provided that the US president and the crown prince continue their meeting after the king’s departure, according to the American network.

In this context, CNN indicated that King Salman’s “expected” absence from the meetings is due to his health condition.

On Friday evening, Biden arrives in Saudi Arabia on a direct and unprecedented trip between Israel and the Kingdom.

Until Friday noon, the White House did not officially announce the full schedule of Biden’s visit to Saudi Arabia.

On Saturday, the city of Jeddah will host an Arab-American summit attended by the leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council and Jordan, with the participation of the US President and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi.

The summit was organized on the occasion of Biden’s visit to Saudi Arabia, on his first foreign trip to the Middle East since taking office in January 2021, and he started on Wednesday with a visit to Israel.

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The Iranian file and the expansion of the “normalization” circle dominated US President Joe Biden’s meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid in West Jerusalem.

The Israeli Prime Minister’s office said in a written statement that Lapid and Biden held a bilateral working meeting on Thursday, in the presence of the two sides from both sides.

“The Prime Minister and the US President welcomed the warm and independent relations that bind Israel and the United States,” he added.

“Prime Minister Lapid, President Biden and the two working groups had lengthy discussions on regional issues,” he added.

Chief among them is the Iranian file and the nuclear agreement, where Lapid thanked President Biden for his decision not to remove the Iranian Revolutionary Guard from the list of terrorist organizations.

He continued, “The Prime Minister also stressed his opposition to returning to the nuclear agreement and the need to intensify pressure on Iran, to return to the negotiating table to discuss an alternative agreement.”

Regarding Israel’s normalization of its relations with Arab countries, he noted that the two leaders stressed “the importance of the Negev Forum.

As well as the need to strengthen cooperation within the framework of the regional structure, and seek to expand the circle of normalization countries.

The Negev Forum includes Israel and the United States, and 4 Arab countries: Egypt, the UAE, Bahrain and Morocco.

Regarding the Palestinian file, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office said: “Lapid and Biden exchanged views on the Palestinian issue.

The Prime Minister reviewed the measures taken by Israel to improve the fabric of Palestinian life in various fields.

On the other hand, the statement said that the two leaders “welcomed the joint statements issued by the two countries.

In the first place, the Jerusalem Declaration that will be signed today, as well as the joint declaration on the establishment of strategic cooperation in the field of advanced technologies.

They also welcomed the upcoming meeting of the I2U2 Leaders Forum, which will be chaired by them, and with the participation of the UAE and India.

The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office indicated that the two leaders instructed the “professional level to complete the process of exempting Israeli citizens.”

It is necessary to obtain a visa to travel to the United States, as soon as possible.”

Biden had arrived in Israel on Wednesday, to leave Friday on his way to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

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US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan announced that President Joe Biden will be “frank” with Israel about the need to secure a nuclear deal with Iran.

He said in a press statement that Biden “will be frank with Israel about Washington’s efforts to reach a nuclear agreement with Iran,” according to the American “Al-Hurra” channel.

The US official’s statements came in conjunction with Biden’s arrival in Israel, on his first trip to the Middle East.

US Air Force One landed on Wednesday afternoon at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, where Israeli President Yitzhak Herzog and Prime Minister Yair Lapid were waiting for him.

Upon his arrival, Biden stressed that the United States “will remain committed to Israel’s security.”

Biden is on a Middle East tour from July 13-16, including Israel, the West Bank, and then Saudi Arabia.

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