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Trump “Still Unsatisfied With Saudi Accounts” about Khashoggi Killing

Trump “Still Unsatisfied With Saudi Accounts” about Khashoggi Killing
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US President Donald Trump said Monday he was still not satisfied with what he has heard from Saudi Arabia about the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but did not want to lose investment from Riyadh.

“I am not satisfied with what I’ve heard,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “I don’t want to lose all that investment that’s been made in our country. But we’re going to get to the bottom of it.”

Trump made similar comments earlier Saturday about being unsatisfied with the Saudi response to the killing.

Trump said Monday that he spoke with the crown prince and that there are Americans in Saudi Arabia and US intelligence officers in Turkey working on the Khashoggi case who are returning Tuesday.

In the same respect, Saudi state TV tweeted that Crown Prince Mohammad met US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, both stressing “ the importance of strategic partnership and the future role of this partnership through Vision 2030,” referring to the kingdom’s long-term development plan.

Mnuchin said Sunday he would not attend a major investment conference to be hosted in Riyadh this week, and that his visit was to hold talks on joint efforts toward countering terrorist financing and curbing Iran’s military and political influence.

Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and critic of Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, the kingdom’s de facto ruler, disappeared three weeks ago after he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to obtain documents for his upcoming marriage.

Riyadh initially denied knowledge of his fate before saying he was killed in a fight in the consulate, a reaction greeted skeptically by several Western governments, straining relations with the world’s biggest oil exporter.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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