In an interview with NBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos on 19 January, Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud laid out the conditions needed to continue with the Saudi plan to normalize with Israel.
The Saudi FM said that “the only way we can credibly address the aftermath of what has happened in Gaza is if we address it in the context of the whole Palestinian situation, and here what we need is to talk about Palestinian statehood.”
“What we feel is key at this time is to find a credible irreversible path to a Palestinian state, and I think ‘irreversible’ is the thing we need to underline because that’s been lacking in the past,” he continued. “I think we have said before that we are prepared to move towards diplomatic relations with Israel provided that we have addressed the issue of Palestine and the Palestinian state, that remains the case […] a credible pathway to that before we can confirm or move forward on all of these issues.”
The Saudi FM said that plans for the formation of a Palestinian state are more important now, adding that it is not only for the interests of the region but for the interests of the global community as well.
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