Blinken says Biden administration to help foster further Israel’s ties also with Kosovo

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Gazeta Express

17/09/2021 20:56

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed to help Israel normalize relations with additional countries and would seek to foster Israel’s growing ties also with Kosovo, after the two countries established diplomatic relations at the beginning of the year.

Blinken said the Biden administration would “continue to build on the successful efforts of the last administration to keep normalisation marching forward,” and would seek to foster “Israel’s growing ties with Morocco, with Bahrain, with the United Arab Emirates, as well as with Sudan, which has also signed the Abraham Accords, and Kosovo, which established ties with Israel at the beginning of the year,” MEMO reports.

“We will encourage more countries to follow the lead of the Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco,” he said at a virtual ceremony with his counterparts from those countries and Israel. “We want to widen the circle of peaceful diplomacy, because it is in the interests of countries across the region, and around the world, for Israel to be treated like any other country,” Blinken said.

Kosovo helped by US has established diplomatic relations with Israel and opened its Embassy in Jerusalem in March 2021. /GazetaExpress/