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Israel, Sudan agree to press on with normalization during Cohen visit
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A handout picture released by the Sovereign Council of Sudan, shows Chairman of Sudan's Sovereignty Council Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan (R) receiving Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen in the capital Khartoum, on February 2, 2023. /AFP
A handout picture released by the Sovereign Council of Sudan, shows Chairman of Sudan's Sovereignty Council Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan (R) receiving Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen in the capital Khartoum, on February 2, 2023. /AFP

A handout picture released by the Sovereign Council of Sudan, shows Chairman of Sudan's Sovereignty Council Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan (R) receiving Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen in the capital Khartoum, on February 2, 2023. /AFP

Israel and Sudan agreed to press on with efforts to normalize relations during a visit by Israeli foreign minister Eli Cohen to Khartoum on Thursday, Sudan's foreign ministry said.

It was the first by an Israeli official formally acknowledged by Sudan, although there have been a series of exchanges between officials from the two countries in recent years.

Sudan agreed to take steps to normalize ties with Israel in a 2020 deal brokered by former U.S. President Donald Trump's administration, alongside normalization agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco, known as the "Abraham Accords".

In January 2021, Sudan said its justice minister at the time, Nasredeen Abdulbari, had signed the Abraham Accords during a visit by U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

Cohen and Chairman of Sudan's Sovereignty Council Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan discussed deepening cooperation between the two countries in security and military matters, as well as in agriculture, energy, health, water and education, Burhan's office said in a statement.

"It was agreed to move forward towards normalizing relations between the two countries," Sudan's foreign ministry said.

Cohen's office said he would convene a news conference in the evening "upon his return from an historic state visit". 

Source(s): Reuters

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