The White House had prepared for a trip to Dubai, and a promised stop in Africa, but the president will likely stay stateside for the remainder of 2023.
President Joe Biden attends a meeting at the COP26 U.N. Climate Change Conference in Scotland on Nov. 2, 2021. | BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden plans to skip an upcoming global climate conference in the Middle East and isn’t likely to follow through on his pledge to visit Africa by year’s end, according to two senior administration officials.
Officials in the United Arab Emirates had expected Biden to attend, according to one person familiar with the conference. The optics of holding the climate conference in the UAE, a major oil producer, has always been awkward, but dozens of countries plan to use the meeting to push for the world’s first deal to phase out CO2-emitting coal, oil and gas.
An appearance in Dubai could have provided Biden with a chance to meet with Arab Leaders against the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas war and amid fears the conflict could expand in the region. A planned meeting with some Arab leaders last month in Jordan, scheduled to take place immediately after Biden left Tel Aviv, was canceled after an explosion at a hospital in Gaza.
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