US ‘will not walk away’ from Middle East: Biden to Arab leaders
Iraqi PM Mustafa Al-Kadhimi with US President Joe Biden in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Jeddah – US President Joe Biden told Arab leaders on Saturday that Washington would remain fully engaged in the Middle East and would not cede influence to other world powers.
“We will not walk away and leave a vacuum to be filled by China, Russia or Iran,” Biden said during a summit in Jeddah, on the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia.