ISRAELI PM BENNETT ARRIVES IN UAE ON OFFICIAL VISIT

Mon 13 December 2021:

On Sunday, Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett arrived in the United Arab Emirates on an official visit, the country’s first by an Israeli leader.

Bennett was greeted at the Presidential Terminal at Abu Dhabi International Airport by Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, according to the official Emirates News Agency (WAM).

The diplomatic outreach comes as world powers negotiate with Iran to salvage a 2015 nuclear deal opposed by Israel and scrapped by then-US President Donald Trump in 2018.

“What a wonderful reception. I am very excited to be here on behalf of my people (on the) first official visit of an Israeli leader here,” Bennett said. “We are looking forward to strengthening the relationship,” he added.

Since August 2020, the UAE has moved to normalize relations with Israel under a US-sponsored initiative dubbed the “Abraham Accords.”

Bennett’s visit to the UAE is the first by an Israeli prime minister to any of those countries since the accords were signed.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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