Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Israeli’s new foreign minister touched on Tuesday in the United Arab Emirates, starting the first high-level journey by an Israeli official to the Bay Arab state since the two countries respected last year’s relationship.
According to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Yair Lapid will inaugurate the Israeli embassy in the Abu Dhabi capital, a meeting with senior Emirati officials – including Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al Nahyan and attended trade shows where Israel companies showed off technology.
The ministry described it as a “historical visit ‘to the Kingdom of the Gulf.
Access to the opening of the Embassy in Abu Dhabi is strictly limited to the emirati media related to the country.
Israel and the UAE established full diplomatic relations last year under the trump, after the two countries signed` `Abraham Accords The US intended.
“” UAE joined Bahrain in normalizing bonds with Israel, becoming the third and fourth Arab countries to sign a peace agreement with the Jewish state, after Egypt and Jordan.
In nine months since the two countries signed a normalization agreement in the White House, Israel and the UAE have signed a broad trade and cooperation agreement, and bilateral trade has been expected to exceed $ 354 million.
More than 200,000 Israeli tourists have traveled to the UAE., Said the Foreign Ministry.
Lapid served as Israeli Foreign Minister after the Government new Israel Oath at the beginning of this month.
Yech Atid’s party leader attacked Dea to share the power of L with Naftali Bennett, who became the Prime Minister of Israel at the eight-party coalition chief, starting from Jewish ultrands to a small Islamic party.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly scheduled and postponed a visit to Abu Dhabi because of the Pandemic Coronavirus, but in the end canceled a visit ahead of the March 23 election because Jordan’s neighbor.
Netanyahu was reportedly prohibiting members of his government from traveling to the UAE until he had the opportunity to make a country visit, according to Israeli media reports.
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Lior Haiiat told reporters after Lapid had left for Abu Dhabi that the rate of bilateral cooperation between the two countries had been ‘unprecedented.
“” I’ve had years of relationship under the radar between Israel and the UAE, and we now enjoy the fruits of peaceful infrastructure that we have built in the past few decades, ” said Hahiat.
Israel and the UAE have maintained clandestine security relationships before normalizing last year’s relationship due to their joint concerns about Iran’s regional arches.