WASHINGTON, June 9. /TASS/. Washington has never sought to rupture the relationship with Riyadh, but to recalibrate it, highlighting human rights, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in an interview with journalists of CNN en Espanol.

"In the case of Saudi Arabia, what we’ve said from the start of the administration is that we sought to recalibrate - not rupture, recalibrate - our relationship with Saudi Arabia to make sure that it reflected, better than we thought it did in the past, our own interests and our own values. Part of that was putting human rights and freedom at the center of that relationship," Blinken was quoted as saying by the press service of the US Department of State when asked about the possibility of US President Joe Biden visiting the kingdom.

Earlier, the US authorities particularly released a report on the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, as well as took measures against a number of Saudi officials involved, Blinken noted. "At the same time, we have, as we do with countries in the hemisphere, broad relationships that have many interests in play. We try to make - we try to account for all of them to best reflect our own interests and values. But the President has been very clear that whether it’s Saudi Arabia or other partners around the world, or whether it’s adversaries, we are going to make sure that human rights is fully reflected in our foreign policy," US Secretary of State said.

Last week Biden did not rule out that he would visit Saudi Arabi soon, adding though that no final decision on the matter had been taken yet.