{"id":12329,"date":"2025-03-11T04:24:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T04:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/from-oil-wealth-to-key-diplomatic-player-how-saudi-arabia-emerged-as-a-global-mediator\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T04:24:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T04:24:52","slug":"from-oil-wealth-to-key-diplomatic-player-how-saudi-arabia-emerged-as-a-global-mediator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/from-oil-wealth-to-key-diplomatic-player-how-saudi-arabia-emerged-as-a-global-mediator\/","title":{"rendered":"From oil wealth to key diplomatic player: How Saudi Arabia emerged as a global mediator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n        As Riyadh prepares to host US-Ukraine talks on how to end Russia&#8217;s war, analysts tell Euronews how Saudi Arabia became a diplomatic heavyweight.\n    <\/p>\n<div style=\"--widget_related_list_trans: 'Related';\">\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad-halfpage u-show-for-mobile-only\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-grey-6-180x22.svg\" width=\"180\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Four years into Russia&#8217;s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Saudi Arabia has established itself as an unexpected but effective mediator between the warring nations.<\/p>\n<p>Having long been an Arab powerhouse due to its oil wealth, booming economy, and political stability in a troubled region, it is emerging as a major global diplomatic player.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad-sticky-floor c-advertising-sticky-floor sales-advertising-sticky-floor u-hide-for-desktop\"><button class=\"c-ad__btn-close\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"this.parentElement.classList.add('u-hide-for-all')\"><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/icons\/icon-cross-10x10-grey-6.svg\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" alt=\"Close advertising\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/button><\/div>\n<p>On Monday, Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman will welcome Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Riyadh, where talks between officials from Washington and Kyiv will take place over a peace framework to end the war.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the first high-level meeting of the US and Ukraine since the heated argument between Zelenskyy and US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>These talks come just weeks after Riyadh hosted top US and Russian officials for their most&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/03\/07\/crude-power-to-key-diplomatic-player-how-saudi-arabia-emerged-as-a-global-mediator\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Riyadh prepares to host US-Ukraine talks on how to end Russia&#8217;s war, analysts tell Euronews how Saudi Arabia became a diplomatic heavyweight. ADVERTISEMENT Four years into Russia&#8217;s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Saudi Arabia has established itself as an unexpected but effective mediator between the warring nations. Having long been an Arab powerhouse due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"category-politics-ar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}