Khalid bin Salman of Saudi Arabia has met with top US officials on Human Rights News

MBS Saudi Crown Prince’s brother is in Washington a few months after cursing the U.S. intelligence report on the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi.

Saudi Arabian Deputy Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman is meeting with senior US officials in the United States Biden a few months from now US intelligence report he linked his brother, Saudi Arabian Prince Mohammed bin Salman, to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Khalid bin Salman Biden is expected to meet with National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and U.S. State Department of Defense officials, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Tuesday.

“They will discuss the long-standing cooperation between the United States and Saudi Arabia, regional security and the U.S. commitment to help Saudi Arabia defend its territory,” Psaki told reporters, adding that Khashoggi’s assassination is also likely.

A high-level Saudi visit – unannounced – was called for by rights groups and U.S. lawmakers for U.S. President Joe Biden. punished MBS Washington Post columnist Khashoggi for his role in the death and rethinking the US-Saudi relationship.

It was Khashoggi He was killed in October 2018 At the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, he went to retrieve documents for his next marriage.

The unclassified U.S. intelligence report released in February found MBS, the de facto ruler of the Gulf nation, the operation that led to the assassination of Khashoggi by a group in Saudi Arabia inside the consulate. The Saudi government denied that the MBS had any role in the assassination.

The country’s Foreign Ministry denounced the findings, saying the report was “a negative assessment, false and unacceptable … about the leadership of the kingdom” as well as “misinformation and inaccurate conclusions”.

But the findings it shook relationships Between Riyadh and Washington, and putting pressure on U.S. President Joe Biden, he was elected last year with the promise of putting human rights at the center of U.S. foreign policy.

The U.S. president said he intended to “recalibrate” the U.S.-Saudi relationship – and that he would communicate directly with King Saudi Arabia’s Salman bin Abdulaziz, not his son, the crown prince.

Khalid bin Salman was the Saudi ambassador at the time of Khashoggi’s assassination in Washington.

When Khashoggi disappeared after going to the Turkish consulate in Turkey, Khalid bin Salman stressed in recent days that the accusations that Saudi Arabia had officially participated in the journalist’s disappearance were unfounded.

The Washington Post also reported that Khalid bin Salman had told Khashoggi to pick up the necessary marriage papers to go to the Turkish consulate, and that it would be safe to do so.

Referring to a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity, the Associated Press said Khalid bin Salman had briefly met at the Pentagon with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and General Mark Milley, the president of the top U.S. leaders.

Saudi Arabia’s deputy defense minister has also had longer talks at the Pentagon with Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl, the official said.

Bin Salman will be at the State Department on Wednesday, spokesman Ned Price said.