Israeli Foreign Minister Travels to Sudan to Discuss Abraham Accords

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen has traveled to Khartoum to negotiate the Abraham Accords, the signing process of which Sudan did not complete several years ago, according to the Jerusalem Post.

The newspaper reports that Sudan was one of the first countries to tentatively agree to normalize relations with Israel; however, the process of signing the documents was not finalized.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry has not officially communicated about the trip, but several Israeli media outlets, including The Jerusalem Post, have obtained information about it. The publication notes that Cohen's trip took place immediately after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to Israel.

The United States has acted as a mediator in the signing of these accords. In 2020, the UAE and Israel normalized relations with the mediation of the United States. Besides the UAE, Bahrain and Morocco also established diplomatic relations with Israel at that time. These agreements were referred to as the Abraham Accords. Sudan officially joined them in early January 2021. Prior to this, only two Arab countries, Egypt (normalization established in 1979) and Jordan (normalization established in 1994), had diplomatic relations with Israel.