US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said US President Donald Trump's threat to destroy Turkey economically if he attacked Kurdish people's protection units would not change plans to withdraw US troops from Syria.
Asked about what Trump meant by Turkey's economic devastation, Pompeo told reporters in Riyadh yesterday: "We imposed economic sanctions in several places, he assumed he was talking about this kind of thing. You have to ask him, "pointing out that he had not spoken with Turkish officials, since Trump's comments.
In another case, Pompeo accused the Huthi rebels in Yemen, backed by Iran, of failing to respect the terms of the Swedish agreement, reached last month under the auspices of the United Nations, on the truce at the strategic port of Hodeidah.
"We talked about the fact that the work that was done in Sweden from Yemen was good, but we need to respect those commitments," Pompeo told reporters accompanying him on his Middle East tour after meeting Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdul Aziz and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. , And today the Huthis backed by Iran chose not to do so. "
The US embassy in Riyadh said in a tweet on its Twitter site that Pompeo and the Saudi Crown Prince had agreed on the need to maintain calm and abide by the terms of the Swedish agreements, particularly the ceasefire and redeployment in Hodeidah. "The overall political solution is the way Only to end the conflict ».
The Saudi monarch and the crown prince reiterated their commitment to hold accountable those responsible for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in his consulate in Istanbul last October. He visited Saudi Arabia as part of a tour of the Middle East, which he had to shorten and not go to Kuwait as planned, because he had to attend a family funeral in his country.