Yet in recent months Riyadh and Washington have negotiated Saudi conditions for progress on normalization, including security guarantees and assistance with a civilian nuclear program with uranium enrichment capability, according to people with knowledge of the meetings.
Hesham Alaghnam, a Saudi analyst at the Naif Arab University for Security Sciences in Riyadh, told AFP this week that Saudi Arabia needed to know whether Israel was “proactively working towards making concrete progress toward resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.” working from”.
Following a meeting at the Palestinian embassy in Amman on Saturday, where Sudairi presented a copy of his credentials, Majdi al-Khaldi, adviser on diplomatic affairs to the Palestinian president, said he approved the appointment, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. “Welcome”.
“It will contribute to the strengthening of the strong and solid fraternal ties that bind the two countries and two fraternal peoples,” Khaldi said.
A Palestinian Authority official said that with the announcement “Saudi Arabia has confirmed the recognition of the State of Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital”.
“This is part of a series of steps and we will continue to develop a relationship with him,” he told AFP on condition of anonymity, adding that he was not authorized to speak to the media.