Senior officials from the U.S., Israel, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Bahrain and Morocco will convene in Abu Dhabi on Monday for a meeting of the Negev Forum to discuss regional integration.
Last March, the Negev Summit was convened in Israel with the participation of Secretary of State Tony Blinken, then-Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and the foreign ministers of the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and Egypt.
It was initially unclear whether the new government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would continue to participate in the process — a legacy of the previous government — but Foreign Minister Eli Cohen expressed commitment to the forum in a recent phone call with Blinken, U.S. officials say.The forum's six working groups are focused on food security and water technology, clean energy, tourism, health, education and coexistence and regional security.
“What's being prepared for these meetings isn't just symbolic, it's talking about ways that we're going to try to create cleaner energy for the people of the region that provides more food security, improve the access to better health care for the people of the region, ensure that that the region is better integrated in terms of its security," the senior State Department official told me.
The issue came up directly between President Biden and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in their meeting last July. So far, Palestinian officials have said they don’t want to be part of the forum’s work.
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