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During Cairo visit, Blinken says 'progress' made on Israel-Saudi normalization
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday that the path toward normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia, delayed by the ongoing war in Gaza, was seeing “very good progress.”
Blinken said at a press conference in Cairo that his visit to the Gulf kingdom on Wednesday had yielded “a very good discussion” with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan.
The talks had focused both on the war in Gaza and on relations between the United States and Saudi Arabia, where Blinken had made three visits since the start of the war on October 7 following Hamas’s shock attack on Israel.
The US top diplomat said he could not “put a time frame” on normalization, but that discussions were “getting close to a point where we’ll have agreements.”
Blinken said at a press conference in Cairo that his visit to the Gulf kingdom on Wednesday had yielded “a very good discussion” with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan.
The talks had focused both on the war in Gaza and on relations between the United States and Saudi Arabia, where Blinken had made three visits since the start of the war on October 7 following Hamas’s shock attack on Israel.
The US top diplomat said he could not “put a time frame” on normalization, but that discussions were “getting close to a point where we’ll have agreements.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/during-cairo-visit-blinken-says-progress-made-on-israel-saudi-normalization/
