Israel’s foreign minister attends climate change meeting in Abu Dhabi
Yisrael Katz visited the United Arab Emirates and met with a senior UAE official and UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres on the sidelines of the conference.
Israel’s foreign minister has attended an international climate summit in Abu Dhabi.
Yisrael Katz visited the United Arab Emirates and met with a senior UAE official and UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres on the sidelines of the conference.
Israel and the UAE do not have formal diplomatic relations, but the two have developed increasingly close ties over shared concerns about Iran.
Mr Katz said in a statement he was representing “the interests of the state of Israel before the Gulf Arab states”.
Visits by senior Israeli officials to Gulf states are rare, but growing in frequency.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Oman last year, but Mr Katz’s visit was the first to the Gulf since last week’s Mideast peace conference in Bahrain.
خلال زيارته للعاصمة الإماراتية أبو ظبي، قدم وزير الخارجية الإسرائيلي كاتس مبادرة "مسارات السلام الإقليمي"، التي تشتمل على اتصال اقتصادي واستراتيجي بين المملكة العربية السعودية ودول الخليج عبر الأردن وشبكة السكك الحديدية الإسرائيلية وميناء حيفا في البحر الأبيض المتوسط. pic.twitter.com/U0jp06dusL
— إسرائيل بالعربية (@IsraelArabic) July 1, 2019
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