Israeli PM to make first official visit to UAE on Sunday

JERUSALEM — Israel’s premier curate announced that helium would marque the archetypal authoritative sojourn by a sitting premier to the United Arab Emirates connected Sunday arsenic portion of a blitz of determination diplomacy amid the backdrop of struggling atomic talks with Iran.

Naftali Bennett’s bureau said helium volition beryllium gathering with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed and discussing strengthening economical and subject ties.

The UAE sojourn volition beryllium the archetypal by an Israeli premier minister. Israel and the UAE had agelong enjoyed clandestine information practice implicit their shared interest implicit Iran, but formalized ties past twelvemonth arsenic portion of the U.S.-brokered “Abraham Accords.”

Bennett’s one-day travel is timed to coincide with ongoing atomic talks betwixt satellite powers and Iran. Israel is not a enactment to the negotiations, but is looking connected with concern. In caller weeks, Israel has fanned retired its apical diplomat and its defence and spy chiefs to conscionable with allies successful Europe, the U.S. and the Mideast to propulsion for a firmer attack to Iran.

Israel says it is determined to forestall Iran from obtaining atomic weapons, portion Tehran insists its atomic programme is solely for peaceful purposes.