Saudi Arabia denies:”No such meeting occurred. The only officials present were American and Saudi.”
In what could be a landmark in the Middle East’s history, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Saudi Arabia on Sunday to meet the country’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Israeli media reported.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, currently on a tour of the region, was also reportedly present at the meeting in Neom, Saudi Arabia.
Netanyahu was accompanied by the head of Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, Yossi Cohen, who is widely regarded to have played a key role in preparing the groundwork for the recent normalization of diplomatic relations between Israel and the Arab Gulf states, news reports said.
If confirmed, this will be the “first known encounter between senior Israeli and Saudi officials,” the Associated Pressnoted. While neighboring Arab states of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain in September signed President Donald Trump-brokered peace deal with Israel, the first such agreements in over 25 years, Saudi Arabia is yet to join the White House-brokered diplomatic initiative.
The news website Times of Israel reported details of the meeting:
In the first visit of its kind, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Saudi Arabia on Sunday, where he met with Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, an Israeli official told Hebrew media on Monday.
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