US President Barack Obama hosted Saudi Arabia's deputy Crown Prince and defence minister Mohammed bin Salman at the White House.

The 30-year-old deputy Crown Prince met almost the entire top leadership of the Obama administration including defence secretary Ashton Carter and secretary of state John Kerry.

According to the White House deputy press secretary Eric Schultz, the meeting was aimed to enhance the deep strategic partnership between the United States and Saudi Arabia.   

"Mostly, it's going to give us an opportunity to further discuss issues of mutual concern and cooperation, including the situations in Yemen and Syria, our campaign against ISIL, Saudi Arabia's national transformation programme of reforming its economy, so all of the issues that were discussed at the GCC Summit in April," he said.

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