United States President, Joe Biden, raised talks of human rights with King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia in a telephone discussion.
The President assured that the US laid emphasis on universal human rights and the rule of law according to the White House.
Biden made this call after reading forthcoming US report into the murder of Saudi Arabian journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, BBC reports.
The report is supposed to incriminate the Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman.

Saudi’s relationship with the US was highly protected by Donald Trump, the US erstwhile president. Trump had rejected a legal requirement to release the report in declassified form. The White House said Biden will “recalibrate” the relationship with Saudi Arabia.
Khashoggi was killed in 2018 inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. Before his murder he was a strong critic of the Saudi government.
Saudi authorities offered the explanation of “rogue operation” by a team of agents sent to return him to the kingdom, and a Saudi court tried and sentenced five individuals to 20 years in prison last September, after initially sentencing them to death.
The White House said Biden noted the recent release of several Saudi-American activists and prominent Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul. Hathloul was released in February after almost three years in detention but is subject to a travel ban and forbidden from speaking with journalists.
The two leaders also discussed “the longstanding partnership between the United States and Saudi Arabia”, and the threat posed to Saudi Arabia by pro-Iranian groups.
Biden told King Salman “he would work to make the bilateral relationship as strong and transparent as possible”, the statement said.