{"id":1855,"date":"2022-10-11T11:57:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T07:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2022-10-11T11:57:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T07:57:19","slug":"senior-us-senator-i-wont-approve-cooperation-with-riyadh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/senior-us-senator-i-wont-approve-cooperation-with-riyadh\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior US senator: I won&#8217;t approve cooperation with Riyadh."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teletrader.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Teletrader<\/a> reports.United States Senator and Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Chair Robert Menendez said on Monday that he will stop approving &#8220;any cooperation with Riyadh&#8221; until Saudi Arabia &#8220;reassesses its position with respect to the war in Ukraine,&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Referring to the decision by the OPEC+ group to slash oil production, the Democratic lawmaker from New Jersey claimed Saudi Arabia is trying to &#8220;help&#8221; Russian President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s &#8220;war through the OPEC+ cartel.&#8221; Menendez stressed in a press release that &#8220;there simply is no room to play both sides&#8221; of the conflict in Ukraine and alleged that Riyadh chose Russia &#8220;in a terrible decision driven by economic self-interest.&#8221; Washington &#8220;must immediately freeze all aspects of our cooperation with Saudi Arabia, including any arms sales and security cooperation beyond what is-absolutely necessary to defend U.S. personnel and interests,&#8221; the Democrat underlined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week&#8217;s decision by OPEC+ is expected to keep oil prices high globally and to drive up prices of gasoline again in the US, developments that reportedly hurt Democrats&#8217; chances ahead of critical midterm elections next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teletrader reports.United States Senator and Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Chair Robert Menendez said on Monday that he will stop approving &#8220;any cooperation with Riyadh&#8221; until Saudi Arabia &#8220;reassesses its position with respect to the war in Ukraine,&#8221;. Referring to the decision by the OPEC+ group to slash oil production, the Democratic lawmaker from New &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-slider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}