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Israeli and Sudan have finalized the text of a peace agreement to be signed “by the end of the year,” Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen announced on Thursday.
Speaking on his return to Tel Aviv from a visit to the Sudanese capital Khartoum, Cohen said the trip was made with the consent of the United States and that the signing ceremony is expected to take place in Washington “after the transfer of rights.” force in Sudan for a civilian government to be established as part of the ongoing transition in the country.”
Cohen emphasized the symbolism of a peace agreement between Israel and Khartoum when he announced the breakthrough.
“Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, is remembered by Israel as the city where the Arab states decided on the historic ‘Three Nos’: no peace with Israel, no negotiations with Israel and no recognition of Israel. We are building a new reality with the Sudanese in which the ‘Three No’s’ will become the ‘Three Yess’: agreeing to negotiations between Israel and Sudan, agreeing to recognize Israel and agreeing to peace between the nations and among peoples, he said.
Sudan is part of the original Abrahamic Agreement normalization agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco brokered by the administration of former US President Donald Trump. But after the military coup in Sudan in October 2021, the final steps of the process with Khartoum have stalled.
During the visit, Cohen met with the leader of Sudan’s ruling Sovereign Council, General Abdel Fatah al-Burhan, and senior officials, and discussed with them steps toward signing a peace treaty. between Israel and Sudan in the near future, the Foreign Ministry Treaty said.
He said at a press conference on Thursday that the visit to Sudan had laid “the foundation for a historic peace agreement with a strategic Arab and Muslim country. The peace agreement between Israel and Sudan will promote regional stability and contribute to the national security of the State of Israel.”
He added that the signing would be “an opportunity to establish relations with other countries in Africa as well as strengthen existing relationships with African countries. The relationship of African nations with Israel is in the mutual interest of both us and the nations of this continent.”
