Israel and Sudan move towards normalising relations

(ANSAmed) - TEL AVIV, 03 FEB - Israel and Sudan have agreed to normalise diplomatic relations.
    The result - with US approval - was achieved during a brief visit by Foreign Minister Eli Cohen on Thursday to Khartoum, where he met with the head of the Sudanese Provisional Council, General Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan.
    The agreement - which will be signed in Washington "later on this year", once the power passes from the provisional government in Sudan to a civil one - adds the African nation to the Abraham Accords, which already include the UAE, Bahrain, and Morocco.
    Jordan and Egypt were already at peace with Israel.
    "The foundations have been laid for a historic peace agreement with a strategic Arab Muslim country," Cohen stressed, adding that this "will foster regional stability and contribute to Israeli national security." The agreement signed on Thursday came after an intensification of contacts between the two countries in recent weeks after intentions to this end were initially expressed by Khartoum in October 2020. (ANSAmed).