Obama underlines "strong" Saudi ties in talks with king-US
 

* Saudis worried U.S. losing interest in the Middle East * Help to Syria's anti-Assad rebels to be discussed * Riyadh concerned about Iranian influence in the Gulf (Adds White House statement, dinner cancellation, new American ambassador) By Jeff Mason RIYADH, March 28 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama underlined Washington's "strong" relationship with Saudi Arabia in talks with King Abdullah on Friday, the White House said, on a visit intended to allay the kingdom's concerns that the decades-old alliance is weakening. The elderly king, accompanied by a number of senior princes, had what appeared to be an oxygen tube connected to his **se at the start of the two-hour meeting at his desert farm at Rawdat Khuraim **rtheast of the capital Riyadh, witnesses said.

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