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Thu 15 Jun 2023 10:40 am - Jerusalem Time

Postponing the "Negev Forum" again

The Hebrew channel Reshet Kan reported, on Thursday morning, that it had been decided to postpone the meeting of the Negev Forum, which was scheduled to be held at the end of this month in Morocco.


According to the channel, the postponement was decided due to Eid al-Adha, which will fall at the end of this month.


She indicated that it was postponed to next month.


This forum is known as the "Negev Forum" because its first summit was held last year for the first time in the Negev, southern occupied Palestine.


The Hebrew newspaper Haaretz recently quoted Israeli sources as saying that the foreign ministers of Israel, the United States, and several Arab countries, including Egypt and the UAE, will participate in the meeting hosted by Morocco.


According to the same sources at the time, the meeting was scheduled to take place early in the beginning of the year, but it was postponed due to security tensions in the Palestinian territories.


The meeting was held for the first time in March of last year in Sde Boker, in the Negev, at the initiative of the former Israeli Foreign Minister at the time, Yair Lapid, and it was decided at that time to hold it once a year in a different country.


According to the newspaper, one of the reasons for delaying its contract is the dispute between the United States and Morocco over its venue, after the latter demanded that it be held in Western Sahara, but Washington opposed and demanded that it be held in a politically non-controversial region.


In recent months, Israel, along with the United States, has sought to expand the circle of participants, and to add Muslim-majority African countries that do not currently maintain diplomatic relations with Tel Aviv, at a time when Arab countries participating in the forum demanded that he change his name so that his identity would not be identified so that he would be clearly Israeli.


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