(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).
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