Adel al-Jubeir, Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, noted in an interview with CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, that peace with Israel is a “strategic choice, but there are certain requirements that must be made” before it, adding that countries that signed the Abraham agreements with Israel made sovereign decisions. .
Al-Jubeir said, “Saudi Arabia supports the Arab peace initiative. In fact, we presented it and made it clear that peace comes at the end of this process and not at the beginning. We also said that the countries that signed the Ibrahim Agreements with Israel are sovereign decisions taken by those countries. We hope that these The decisions have a positive impact on the Israeli interior.”
Regarding whether Saudi Arabia is ready to join the agreement, Al-Jubeir said, “We have made it clear that we need a process and that this process must include the implementation of the Arab Peace Initiative. Once we achieve that, we are committed to a two-state settlement with the Palestinian state on the occupied territories and its capital. East Jerusalem. This is our demand for peace.”
Al-Jubeir stressed that peace with Israel “is a strategic choice, but there are certain requirements that must be met before this happens.”