In response to Netanyahu’s promise to continue pursuing annexing parts of the West Bank, a senior UAE official tells The Times of Israel that Abu Dhabi remains committed to the establishment of a Palestinian state and the terms of the Arab Peace Initiative.
“The UAE, US and Israel have agreed on suspending Israeli annexation of Palestinian territories in order to establish bilateral relations towards a stable and peaceful region via dialogue and diplomacy,” Hend al-Otaiba, the director of strategic communications of the Emirati Foreign Ministry says.
“The UAE is committed to the Arab peace initiative and the rights of the Palestinian people for an independent state in peaceful coexistence with the state of Israel.”
The Arab Peace Initiative, first proposed in the early 1990s by Saudi Arabia, calls for full diplomatic ties between Israel and the entire Arab world after a peace agreement with the Palestinians based on the 1967 lines is signed.
— Raphael Ahren
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