Normalisation helping resolve Palestine-Israel conflict, Egypt’s FM says

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said yesterday that his country looks at the Abrahams Accords as a positive development as it will lead to “regional integration”, news agencies reported.

Speaking at the Wilson Center, he said that the normalization deal “should be encouraging of Israel to proceed to engage in peace negotiations.”

“The potential of regional integration, the disappearance of the perceived threat, is, I’m sure, reinforcing to the approach towards resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, definitively and finally,” he said.

“Egypt led the way, more than 40 years ago and creating peace opened the door for Jordan and, subsequently, unfortunately much later, came the Abraham Accords, which is again in the same line,” Shoukry continued.

“We believe that dispelling the ideas of a potential threat is the way forward to achieve comprehensive peace across the region, and we hope that it will have that impact, but we recognise and have recognised over the last two years that there is a lack of engagement on both of the Israeli and the Palestinian side.”

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“We have also tried to fill some of that vacuum and reassure the Palestinians that there is a commitment on the part of the international community to uphold the parameters of peace agreement.”

“We continue to have discussions with our Israeli friends related to the importance of moving ahead on the peace negotiations to finally end the conflict.”

Shoukry also met with Jewish groups in the US and discussed “The strategic ties with the US / Egypt’s view regarding regional issues / Egypt’s efforts to revive the peace path, achieving a comprehensive peace, enhancing security & stability in the region,” a tweet by his spokesperson said.

FM #Shoukry meets representatives from American Jewish organizations, to discuss:

▪️The strategic ties with the US
▪️Egypt's view regarding regional issues
▪️Egypt’s efforts to revive the peace path, achieving a comprehensive peace, enhancing security & stability in the region pic.twitter.com/WMRpfKzD2z

— Egypt MFA Spokesperson (@MfaEgypt) November 9, 2021