(Reuters) -UAE International Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed harassed the pressing want for ending the Gaza conflict throughout a gathering with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the UN Normal Meeting in New York, UAE state information company WAM reported on Saturday.
It was Netanyahu’s first assembly with a senior Arab official since Israel’s Sept. 9 assault on Hamas leaders in Qatar, which the UAE condemned and protested by summoning Israel’s deputy ambassador.
The UAE, a serious oil producer and regional commerce and commerce hub with diplomatic sway throughout the Center East, signed a U.S.-brokered normalisation settlement with Israel beneath the Abraham Accords in 2020, which paved the best way for shut financial and safety ties, together with defence cooperation.
The Abraham Accords, brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump throughout his first time period in workplace, noticed the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco normalise diplomatic relations with Israel.
Sheikh Abdullah reiterated the UAE’s “unwavering dedication to supporting all initiatives aimed toward reaching a complete peace primarily based on the two-state answer, in a means that fulfills the aspirations of each the Palestinian and Israeli peoples,” WAM mentioned.
The report made no point out of the Abraham Accords, which have been strained by Israeli insurance policies within the area.
Earlier this month, the UAE warned Israel that annexation within the occupied West Financial institution would represent a “crimson line” for Abu Dhabi that may severely undermine the spirit of the Abraham Accords that normalised UAE-Israeli relations.
Sources instructed Reuters that Abu Dhabi might downgrade diplomatic ties with Israel if Netanyahu’s authorities annexes half or the entire Israeli-occupied West Financial institution.
Main western nations, together with France, Britain, Canada, Australia and Portugal, recognised a Palestinian state final Sunday in a transfer borne out of frustration over the Gaza conflict and supposed to advertise a two-state answer, prompting a livid response from Israel.
Netanyahu, who dominated out the potential of establishing a Palestinian state, sharply denounced Western nations for embracing Palestinian statehood.
Probably the most far-right authorities in Israel’s historical past has declared there might be no Palestinian state because it pushes on with its battle towards militant group Hamas in Gaza following the October 7, 2023, assault on Israel that killed some 1,200 individuals.
(Reporting by Muhammad Al Gebaly; Enhancing by Chris Reese and Kim Coghill)
