White House denies claim that Saudi prince refused Biden's call on Ukraine

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
at a Gulf summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, December 2021.
 (Reuters)

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Thursday that a report published in the Wall Street Journal claiming Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman refused to take a phone call from President Biden regarding the U.S. ban on Russian oil imports was “inaccurate.”

“That report is inaccurate, so let me start there,” Psaki said during a White House press briefing. “The president did speak with the Saudi king just a few weeks ago, several weeks ago, it’s all running together at this point in time. There were no rebuffed calls, period.”

The Journal quoted an anonymous U.S. official who claimed that bin Salman rebuffed Biden over the lack of U.S. support for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen, as well as the issue of granting bin Salman legal immunity in the U.S. over the brutal killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

By David Knowles.

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