Morocco postpones Negev Summit until September due to ‘political context’ in region
RABAT, Morocco (AA): Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita has announced that the second Negev Summit which was scheduled for July would be held in September “if the context is favorable,” according to media reports.
“We hope that the context will be favorable to the holding of this important event,” Bourita said at a news conference after meeting his Swiss counterpart, Ignazio Cassis, in Rabat, according to Morocco’s official MAP news agency.
Bourita said efforts were made to organize the forum during the summer but “problems of scheduling and dates had prevented it from taking place . . . the political context which might not allow this meeting to produce the results expected from this event.”
“The Negev Forum stands for an idea of cooperation and dialogue, contrary to anything that is provocative action, unilateral action, or a decision carried by radicals on both sides, but especially on the Israeli side, in relation to the occupied Arab territories,” he added.
The Negev Forum was established in March 2022 in Negev in southern Israel, as part of “normalization” deals between Israel and four Arab countries — the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan — under US-sponsored “Abraham Accords” — rejected as a “stab in the back” by Palestinians.
The first summit in March was held at the foreign ministers level where working groups were established to enhance cooperation in regional security, health, education, tolerance, water security and tourism.
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