Trump closes armaments deal of $ 142 billion in Saudi Arabia

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Business trip: Trump seals over 142 billion DOLLER in Riyad

Donald Trump has reached the first goal of his trip to the Golf. In Riad he only signed agreements. All developments in the news blog.

US President Donald Trump arrived in Saudi Arabia on his first big trip abroad and signed the first contracts. “It’s about shops, shops, business,” explained Aaron David Miller, from the American research institution Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Trump met with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riad. He is accompanied by a number of US managers, especially Tech entrepreneurs and Trump consultant Elon Musk. The contracts with RIAD are about closer economic cooperation, including the development of artificial intelligence (AI). In a first deal, armor deliveries from the USA worth $ 142 billion were agreed. It was the “greatest defense sales in history,” said the White House.

A total of Saudi Arabia wants to invest $ 600 billion in the United States within four years.

In addition to Saudi Arabia, Trump will also visit Qatar and the United Arab Emirates on his trip. There, too, it is about investments by the Golf states in the United States.

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After the departure of US President Donald Trump to visit in the Middle East, his government gave the green light to the United Arab Emirates for a hunting sale for a billion dollars. As the US State Department announced on Monday, the sale of around $ 1.4 billion (around 1.3 billion euros) transport helicopters of type CH-47F chinook and equipment as well as components for F-16 fight jets. The sale must still be approved by the US Congress.

The proposed sale to the golf state will “support foreign policy and the national security of the United States,” said the department of the US State Department responsible for political-military matters. The United Arab Emirates (VAE) would use these funds “for search and rescue campaigns, disaster relief, humanitarian support and fight against terrorism”. It was also said that the VAE was “an important partner of the United States for political stability and economic progress in the Middle East”.

In a separate report, representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the F-16 components would improve the ability of the Emirates, “defend their sovereignty and territorial integrity and to meet their national defense requirements”.

According to US President Donald Trump, a genocide of white South Africans takes place in South Africa. Trump explains this in front of journalists in the White House. The Trump government had previously welcomed 59 white South Africans as refugees. US President Donald Trump has blocked the inclusion of refugees from other parts of the world, which are mostly not white. On request, Trump said that he did not prefer the White South Africans because they are white: “Your skin color doesn’t matter to me.” Read more about the backgrounds here.

In the middle of its ongoing nuclear discussions with Iran, the United States announced new sanctions against Tehran on Monday and justified this with the continuation of the Iranian nuclear program. “Iran continues to expand its nuclear program,” said Foreign Minister Marco Rubio on Monday, one day after the end of a further round of negotiations between rankhohing representatives of both countries in Oman. Tehran carries out “research and development activities with a double intended use”.

These activities are referring to nuclear weapons and carrier systems for nuclear weapons, “Rubio continued. He added that Iran was the only country in the world without nuclear weapons that enriched uranium to a purity level of 60 percent. With the sanctions, all assets of the persons and organizations in the USA are frozen, the cooperation with them is prohibited.

According to the US State Department, the latest sanctions are directed against three Iranian nuclear program representatives and the Iranian company Fuya Pars Prospective Technologists, which talks connections to the Iranian military research organization. The company Fuya Pars Prospective Technologists, which is also known as the ideal Vacuum, tried to “procure equipment from foreign suppliers and to produce equipment in their own country that could be used for the research and development of nuclear weapons,” it said.