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Israel to host US, Arab diplomats in ‘Abraham Accords’ summit

Israel to host US, Arab diplomats in ‘Abraham Accords’ summit

Meetings will include US Secretary of State Blinken, diplomats from Arab states that have normalised ties with Israel.

Israel said it will host a “historic summit” beginning on Sunday, with the participation of top diplomats from the United States and three Arab states with which it has normalised ties.

“At the invitation of Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, this upcoming Sunday and Monday … a historic diplomatic summit will be held in Israel,” the Israeli foreign ministry said on Friday.

A series of diplomatic meetings would be attended by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his counterparts from the UAE, Bahrain and Morocco, it said, without giving further details.

The United Arab Emirates normalised 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 normalise 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.

But the Arab countries which have normalised ties said they were motivated by the economic benefits of establishing official relations with Israel, despite opposition from the Palestinians.

In a separate development, Jordanian state media said King Abdullah II would host Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Iraq’s Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi and Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi’s powerful crown prince, in the southern Jordanian city of Aqaba on Friday.

The upcoming talks come against the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a conflict that has sparked wider security concerns, and sent oil and food prices soaring.


Impact of Ukraine war


It also follows a three-way summit hosted by Egypt on Tuesday at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh between el-Sisi, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, and Crown Prince Mohammed.

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.

It was not immediately known where the top diplomats would meet in Israel.

But the talks are being organised to coincide with a regional tour by Blinken due to begin on Saturday.

The US secretary of state is due to hold talks with the Bennett before meeting Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas at his Ramallah headquarters in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Blinken is also due to visit Algeria and Morocco at a time when the region is reeling from the backlash of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

“We know this pain is keenly felt in the Middle East and North Africa, where most countries import at least half of their wheat,” much of it from Ukraine, Department of State Acting Assistant Secretary Yael Lempert told reporters in Washington.

While in Morocco, Blinken is also due to meet Crown Prince Mohammed, the Department of State said.

Blinken’s visit also comes amid Israeli efforts to mediate a solution to the war in Ukraine, which has left both sides with heavy losses, and shows no signs of abating.

It also comes as the US is close to reaching an agreement with Iran to restore the 2015 accord limiting Tehran’s nuclear development programme, in return for removing sanctions on the country.


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