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Pentagon’s top policy official meets Saudi Arabia’s deputy defense minister in Riyadh

Anthony Tata sat down with Prince Khalid bin Salman on Thursday, but details of the discussion remain unclear.

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In left photo, Saudi Arabia's depuyy defense minister, Prince Khalid bin Salman, waits for a meeting with US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper at the Pentagon on Aug. 29, 2019, in Washington. At right is Pentagon acting policy chief Anthony Tata. The pair met in Saudi Arabia on Thursday. — BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images (L) / US Defense Department (R)

The Pentagon’s acting policy chief, Anthony Tata, met with the Saudi Arabian deputy defense minister, Prince Khalid bin Salman, in Riyadh on Thursday. The two discussed a “shared vision of stability for the region,” said Prince Khalid, who is the younger brother of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Details of the conversation were not immediately clear. A spokesperson for Tata’s office was unable to offer comment by publication time.

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