{"id":5764,"date":"2023-06-14T19:23:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T14:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=5764"},"modified":"2023-06-14T19:24:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T14:24:38","slug":"saudis-mbs-heads-to-france-macron-seeks-shift-on-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/world\/saudis-mbs-heads-to-france-macron-seeks-shift-on-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi&#8217;s MBS heads to France, Macron seeks shift on Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Paris, June 14: Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was on Wednesday heading to France where he will meet President Emmanuel Macron, with Paris seeking intensified support from the oil-rich kingdom for Ukraine against Russia&#8217;s invasion.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Macron&#8217;s office said the two would speak on Friday over lunch at the president&#8217;s Elysee Palace, adding that they would discuss &#8220;especially the war in Ukraine and its consequences for the rest of the world&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The de-facto ruler, known widely as &#8220;MBS&#8221;, is no stranger to France, owning the opulent Chateau Louis XIV near Versailles outside Paris, a modern building that seeks to replicate the look of French imperial palaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prince&#8217;s stay in France could last some days, with MBS also due to attend a Paris summit on a New Global Financing Pact hosted by Macron on June 22-23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Monday, he will also attend an official Saudi reception for Riyadh&#8217;s candidacy to host Expo 2030.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris, June 14: Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was on Wednesday heading to France where he will meet President Emmanuel Macron, with Paris seeking intensified support from the oil-rich kingdom for Ukraine against Russia&#8217;s invasion. Macron&#8217;s office said the two would speak on Friday over lunch at the president&#8217;s Elysee Palace, adding that [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":5765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,73,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-security","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}