As US politicians lined up to lambast Saudi Arabia after the Opec+ alliance slashed its oil production targets, the kingdom put forward one of its most seasoned diplomats to deliver a message across American television channels: this is not about you.
“The idea that Saudi Arabia would do this to harm the US or to be in any way politically involved is absolutely not correct at all,” Adel al-Jubeir, minister of state for foreign affairs and a former ambassador to the US, told Fox News at the weekend.
The message from Riyadh was that it had acted on the basis of market conditions and in its own interests as it sought to preserve oil prices to fund massive state spending plans.
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