The officials of the US, Israel, and four Arab countries, including the UAE, Bahrain, and Morocco are set to meet in Manama, Bahrain this Monday, following the recent strengthening of ties with Israel, reported the Times of Israel.
Today’s meeting comes after three months of the historic meeting held in the Jewish state, in a bid to strengthen their cooperation, according to the same source.
In Manama, the countries will hold talks as well as decide on different sectors, including regional security, food, and water security, energy, health, education and tolerance, and tourism, added the same source.
The group of countries intends to represent a memorandum of understanding that will detail the progress made on Monday, said the Times of Israel.
Each of the six Negev Summit countries will lead one of the working groups. These will meet two to three times a year.
The last meeting of the member countries was held last March 28 in Sde Boker in Israel where they announced that they are working on several areas of common interest.
It was also an opportunity for Morocco, represented by Foreign Affairs Minister Nasser Bourita, to cement agreements resulting from the Kingdom’s normalization with Israel.
Bourita reaffirmed Morocco’s “commitment to the two-state solution, within the framework of the 1967 agreement and borders, with East Jerusalem as the capital of the Palestinian state.”
The Moroccan official also stated the important historic ties linking both Morocco and the Jewish people.
The strengthening of diplomatic ties came after Israel and Morocco reached the trilateral Abraham accords agreement in December 2020, involving the US.
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