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TheNegev Summit was a summit that took place on 27–28 March 2022 inSde Boker, Israel, in which Israeli Foreign MinisterYair Lapid hosted the foreign ministers ofBahrain,Egypt,Morocco and theUnited Arab Emirates, as well as U.S.Secretary of StateAntony Blinken.
The four Arab countries present at the conference were represented by their Foreign Ministers:Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates;Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, from Bahrain;Nasser Bourita, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Morocco;Sameh Shoukry, Foreign Minister from Egypt.
On March 28, 2022, it was announced that the conference was to become an annual forum, to be called theNegev Forum [he].
The meeting was organized by Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and its primary purpose was to establish an international alliance against thenuclear program of Iran.[citation needed] Initially, the idea was to bring together as many countries as possible from theAbrahamic Accords, in order to strengthen and deepen ties.[citation needed] This is a few days after the Prime Minister of Israel,Naftali Bennett, also visited Egypt.[citation needed] The Jordanian foreign minister was also invited to join the conference, but he held a series of meetings in Kuwait at the time.Jordan[1] and thePalestinian Authority have declined to join the talks.[2]
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The foreign ministers ofIsrael,Egypt,Morocco,Bahrain and theUnited Arab Emirates, and theUnited States Secretary of State, met atSde Boker in theNegev,Israel, and decided to hold regular meetings about regional security and commit to further expanding economic and diplomatic cooperation.[3]
The six foreign ministers who participated in the summit decided to set up a number of joint working groups. The first to discuss national security and the war on terror and other working groups will be education, health, energy, tourism, food and water. In addition, the six foreign ministers agreed that each annual (or semi-annual) meeting would convene in a different desert city, to symbolize the issue common to all relevant countries: the need to improve water supply, desert tourism, book settlement localization and food security concerns.[citation needed] Topics raised included wheat prices, theWestern Sahara question,piracy in the Red Sea, and dealing with launching UAVs and long-range missiles, in addition raising opposition to theJCPOA nuclear deal with Iran and resisting its proxies.[citation needed][4]
United States Secretary of StateAntony Blinken said that the meeting "could expand the potential for peace and conflict resolution across the region." He also said that he supported a two-state solution for Palestine and criticized the construction of Israeli settlements on disputed territory as well as Palestinian payments to the families of terrorists.[3] Arab government attendees also said that Israel "must make progress on implementing a two-state solution for the Palestinians with East Jerusalem as its capital."[3]
During the summit, an attack took place inHadera in whichtwo police officers were shot by a pair of Israeli Arabs who had sworn allegiance toISIS. All summit participantsunanimously condemned the attack.[4]
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