Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani has said that Pakistani officials have not met Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen recently.
According to Geo News, he stated that when considering how to build relations with Israel, Pakistan would consider the interests of both its own people and Palestinians.
The Israeli minister had stated the day before that he had met officials from Muslim countries with which Israel has no diplomatic connections.
According to Cohen, once Saudi Arabia joins the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan, six or seven Islamic countries will join the Abraham Accords.
Earlier, Saudi Arabia and Israel expressed optimism that they were on the edge of historic normalisation of relations, even as Iran, their common foe accused the kingdom of forsaking the Palestinians through the US-led effort.
On Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the United Nations that Israel is on the “cusp” of normalising relations with Saudi Arabia and that Palestinians should not be allowed to “veto” the move.
Netanyahu told the United Nations General Assembly in New York that agreements to establish formal connections with three other Arab states in 2020 had already “heralded the dawn of a new age of peace.”
“However, I believe we are on the edge of a more dramatic breakthrough: a historic peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia.”
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US President Joe Biden hopes to alter the Middle East — and win an election-year diplomatic success — by gaining Saudi Arabia’s recognition of the Jewish state, which guards Islam’s two holiest sites.
Meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, Biden joked that he had “Irish optimism” about reaching an agreement with Saudi Arabia.
After making peace with neighbouring Egypt and Jordan, Israel established relations with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Morocco in 2020, its first normalisations with the Arab world in decades.
