UAE Envoy Says Accord With Israel Salvages Arab Peace Plan
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The United Arab Emirates’ deal to pursue formal ties with Israel helped to salvage a Saudi Arabian plan to make peace between the Jewish state and the Arab world in return for a Palestinian state, the UAE’s envoy to the United Nations said.
With the decision last week, the UAE appears headed to become the third Arab country to normalize relations with Israel, joining Egypt and Jordan and sending shock waves through a region in transformation.