MANAMA (AFP) - Bahrain said on Wednesday (Aug 26) it was committed to the creation of a Palestinian state in talks with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, implicitly rejecting his push for Arab countries to swiftly normalise ties with Israel.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
MANAMA - Bahrain said on Wednesday it was committed to the creation of a Palestinian state in talks with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, implicitly rejecting his push for Arab countries to swiftly normalise ties with Israel.
"Hopeful we will build on this momentum towards regional peace," Mr Pompeo tweeted as he landed in Abu Dhabi, the latest stop on the tour which has taken in Israel, Sudan and Bahrain. Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa said he told Mr Pompeo that his country remains committed to the Arab Peace Initiative - which calls for Israel's complete withdrawal from the Palestinian territories occupied after 1967, in exchange for peace and the full normalisation of relations.
Manama, whose contacts with Israel date back to the 1990s, was the first Gulf country to welcome the UAE rapprochement and was considered a front runner to follow in its footsteps. EYES ON SAUDI Saudi Arabia, while not condemning the UAE-Israel deal, has refused to normalise ties until Israel signs an internationally recognised peace accord with the Palestinians.
She said that in these countries"popular opposition towards normalisation is still quite high", despite colder sentiment towards the Palestinian cause among some quarters of the youth, especially in Saudi Arabia."Excited to arrive in the United Arab Emirates and congratulate the Emirati people on the historic Abraham Accords - the most significant step toward peace in the Middle East in over 25 years," he tweeted on Wednesday.
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