Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen announced on Monday that he would attend a summit that would bring the signatories of Abraham accords together in Morocco, Reuters reported.
Cohen, who took office last week as part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new hard-right coalition government, said Morocco would host the summit in March.
“Expanding the accords to other countries is not a matter of ‘if’ but of ‘when’,” said Cohen.
He added that Israel’s ties with current partners had driven up $2.85 billion in 2022 trade and “a significant contribution to security (and) regional stability.”
In September 2021, Israel held a virtual summit which saw the presence of the Israeli foreign minister Yaer Lapid, the Moroccan foreign minister Nasser Bourita, the Emirati Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash, and Ambassador of Bahrain to the United States Sheikh Abdullah bin Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa to commemorate the first year of Abraham accords.
Morocco, nearly a year ago, reopened its liaison office in Israel, after twenty years of closure, according to the tripartite agreement to restore Moroccan-Israeli diplomatic relations.
It is unclear if plans set for the summit which included the elevate Morocco’s liaison office in Tel Aviv to the rank of the embassy are still in place.
Israel aims to expand cooperation on matters ranging from military, politics, investment, agriculture, tourism, energy, and more, with several Israeli officials visiting Morocco in order to reach agreements in different sectors.
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