OCCUPIED JERUSALEM —
Egypt’s foreign minister will take part in talks in Israel from Sunday
alongside his counterparts from the US and three Arab states, an Israeli
official said.
اضافة اعلان
Sameh Shoukry will
be joining US Secretary of State
Antony Blinken and the foreign ministers of
the UAE, Bahrain, and Morocco for a series of meetings hosted by their Israeli
counterpart Yair Lapid, an Israeli official told AFP on Saturday, on condition
of anonymity.
The two-day event
will be held against the backdrop of
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a conflict
that has sparked wider security concerns and sent oil and food prices soaring.
It also comes as
the US is close to reaching an agreement with Iran to restore the 2015 accord
limiting Tehran’s nuclear activities in return for removing sanctions on the
country
The UAE normalized
diplomatic ties with Israel in 2020 under a series of US-brokered deals known
as the
Abraham Accords.
Bahrain and
Morocco followed suit, while Sudan also agreed to normalize ties with Israel
although it has yet to finalise a deal.
The agreements,
reached under
former US president Donald Trump, broke with decades of Arab
consensus that there would be no relations with Israel while the Palestinian
question remains unresolved.
The two-day
meeting in Israel follows a three-way summit hosted by Egypt on Tuesday at the
Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh between Egyptian President
Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan.
Egypt was the
first
Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel in 1979, after decades of
enmity and conflict. Jordan followed suit in 1994.
The “historic
summit” announced Friday by Israel will mark the first time the foreign
ministers of the UAE and Morocco make a public visit to Israel.
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