U.S. and Saudi announce package of agreements during Biden trip

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) – The US and Saudi Arabia on Friday made a bundle of bulletins starting from eradicating peacekeepers from a strategic island off the Saudi and Egyptian coasts to cooperation in cellular expertise, throughout a go to by U.S. President Joe Biden.

Within the assertion launched after Biden held talks with senior Saudi officers together with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the USA additionally welcomed beforehand introduced accelerated oil manufacturing will increase by OPEC+, a gaggle which incorporates Saudi Arabia and Russia.

The assertion mentioned U.S. and different peacekeepers would depart Tiran island the place they’ve been stationed as a part of accords reached in 1978 and which led to a peace deal between Israel and Egypt. Tiran lies between Saudi Arabia and Egypt, in a strategic space that results in the Israeli port of Eilat.

Washington additionally welcomed a Saudi transfer to open its air area to civilian plane flying to and from Israel, which had beforehand been barred with uncommon exceptions, the assertion mentioned.

Different bulletins additionally lined an settlement on cooperation on 5G and 6G cellular expertise and on cybersecurity.

(Reporting by Steve Holland, Aziz el Yaakoubi, Maha El Dahan and Jarrett Renshaw; Writing by Edmund Blair; Enhancing by Daniel Wallis)