(Washington) US President Joe Biden will receive the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, at the White House on Monday, January 31, his spokeswoman Jen Psaki announced on Tuesday.
Posted at 5:31 p.m.
In particular, during their meeting, it will be a question of “ensuring the stability of the international energy supply”, she said in a press release, at a time when Washington and the Europeans are looking for alternatives if ever Russian gas comes. to be missed, in the event of an attack by Russia against Ukraine.
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President Joe Biden and the Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani will notably discuss energy. Washington and the Europeans are looking for alternatives if ever Russian gas runs out, in the event of an attack by Russia against Ukraine.
The Gulf emirate has huge gas reserves and is the world’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas.
The two men will also talk about Afghanistan, according to the White House statement.
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Qatar, which hosts a major US military base, played a crucial role in the end of the US military intervention in this country, both in diplomatic terms but also logistically for the evacuation operations.
“The President will thank the Emir for Qatar’s extraordinary and prolonged efforts to ensure that American nationals, residents of the United States and our Afghan partners can leave Afghanistan safely,” Jen Psaki wrote.
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The United States has a large military base in Qatar, which served as an intermediate destination during the evacuation of Kabul in August 2021.
She assures, in her press release, that Joe Biden “is impatient to have this important meeting and to affirm the solid partnership” between the two countries.