Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov waits to watch the Victory Day military parade at Red Square in central Moscow on May 9, 2022. (KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)

MOSCOW – Moscow highly values its relations with Riyadh and hopes US President Joe Biden's upcoming visit to Saudi Arabia would not be used to create hostility against Russia, the Kremlin said Wednesday.

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Monday that Biden will make the case for greater oil production from OPEC nations to bring down gasoline prices when he meets Gulf leaders in Saudi Arabia this week

"We highly value our interests, our relations and our cooperation with Riyadh," local media reported citing Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
"We hope the building and development of Riyadh's relations with other countries will in no way be directed against us," he said.
The comment comes ahead of Biden's visit to Saudi Arabia this week. The visit aims to enhance the historic bilateral relations and strategic partnership between the United States and Saudi Arabia, according to a statement from the Saudi Royal Court.

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White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Monday that Biden will make the case for greater oil production from OPEC nations to bring down gasoline prices when he meets Gulf leaders in Saudi Arabia this week.
Peskov also said that Russia, the world's second-largest oil exporter after Saudi Arabia and the world's biggest exporter of natural gas, highly valued cooperation with Saudi Arabia within the framework of OPEC+ group of world's leading oil producers.
"We are within the framework of the OPEC + agreements, and we highly appreciate the work that we manage to do with our partners, including with leading partners such as Saudi Arabia," he told a daily conference call with reporters.
As the world faces one of the worst energy supply crunches since the Arab oil embargo in the 1970s, Biden has repeatedly urged the OPEC+ and its kingpin Saudi Arabia to lift oil production faster than the group is already doing.
But major Gulf producers have little spare production capacity.

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