Saudi Arabia
The prime minister lauded his government’s achievements at last week’s U.N. General Assembly.
The delegation is in Riyadh for a U.N. World Tourism Organization conference.
The visitors are led by Nayef al-Sudairi, Riyadh’s first non-resident envoy to the P.A. and consul general to Jerusalem.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had said at the United Nations General Assembly that Palestinians should not hot a veto over Israeli-Saudi normalization.
The Saudi foreign minister made no direct mention of Israel or normalization in his UNGA speech; the American Jewish reaction to Netanyahu’s address was also scant.
“Israel and Saudi have already normalized. When the formal agreement comes is anyone’s guess,” wrote Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
A senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told JNS that Netanyahu meant to say “credible military threat” and that he stands by the original text of the speech.
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Israeli officials are “quietly working” with the White House to develop a “U.S.-run, uranium-enrichment operation” in the kingdom.
Mohammed bin Salman dismissed reports Riyadh suspended U.S.-led normalization talks.
The Israeli prime minister also discussed the Iranian threat, normalization with Saudi Arabia and the new economic corridor from India to Europe.
The leaders discussed an economic corridor linking Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
