Biden meets Jordan's king announcing new US aid
The White House has said that the United States has committed to a new assistance package for Jordan of no less than $1.45 billion a year as Biden met Jordan's King Abdullah.
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- Published Date: 08:07 | 16 July 2022
- Modified Date: 08:41 | 16 July 2022
President of United States Joe Biden met Jordan's King Abdullah on Saturday in Saudi Arabia, with the US announcing new aid for the country.
The White House has said that the United States has committed to a new assistance package for Jordan of no less than $1.45 billion a year.
The announcement was made after the two leaders met on the sidelines of a wider regional summit in which Biden vowed that the U.S. will not walk away from the Middle East's security and is not going to leave a vacuum for Russia, China or Iran to try and fill.
Jordan, which hosts Palestinian and Syrian refugees, shares borders with Israel and the West Bank. Its stability is seen as crucial to the region, but its economy has struggled under the weight of inflation and from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The government has faced public protests, and the king's brother, Prince Hamza, is under house arrest following a public rebuke of the country's leadership.
In 2017, the U.S. committed to no less than $1.27 billion per year in bilateral foreign assistance to Jordan, beginning in 2018 and ending in 2022. The new annual package to Jordan is an adjustment of that annual U.S. support for the country.
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