US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet together with his Israeli and United Arab Emirates counterparts subsequent week to debate progress made on the so-called Abraham Accords as nicely regional safety, Reuters reported the US State Division as saying on Saturday.
Blinken will meet with Israeli Overseas Minister Yair Lapid and UAE Overseas Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed on Wednesday in separate bilateral conferences and in a trilateral setting, the State Division stated in a press release.
“They’ll talk about progress made for the reason that signing of the Abraham Accords final yr, future alternatives for collaboration, and bilateral points together with regional safety and stability,” the State Division stated.
Blinken final month pledged to encourage extra Arab nations to normalise relations with Israel as he hosted a digital assembly with Israeli and Arab counterparts to mark the primary anniversary of the set of landmark diplomatic agreements.
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The leaders of Israel, the UAE and Bahrain signed the Abraham Accords, broadly seen as a diplomatic success for former President Donald Trump, on the White Home in September of final yr.
Israel and Sudan introduced within the following month that they’d normalize relations, and Morocco established diplomatic ties with Israel in December, after President Joe Biden defeated Trump within the US election.
Biden has backed the offers since taking workplace in January, and senior aides have stated they had been working to get further Arab nations to normalize relations with Israel after many years of enmity.
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