Tuesday 5 May 2009

Comment: Saudi detente with US faces tests

On the surface it was a love fest, a day of celebration by an estranged couple who had finally reconciled, and were now happily planning a common future.

One after the other, American politicians and officials lined up at a recent Washington conference to praise the 2002 Saudi Arabian peace initiative on the Arab-Israeli conflict as historic, unique and bold.

William Burns, the US under-secretary of state for political affairs, outlined how the interests of his country and Saudi Arabia largely coincided and described America’s relationship with the kingdom, and the rest of the Gulf, as “unshakeable”.

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