Israel says top diplomat Lapid to visit UAE in first official trip

JERUSALEM: Israel's Foreign Minister Yair Lapid will visit the United Arab Emirates, in the first official ministerial visit since the two nations agreed to normalise ties, his office said on Monday .

Lapid is the architect of a coalition government in Israel that came to power on Jun 13, ousting long serving prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who presided over last year's normalisation accords.Israeli ministers have previously visited the UAE, but Lapid is the most senior Israeli to make the trip, and the first to travel on an official journey.

In October 2018, Miri Regev, then Israel's Minister of Culture and Sports, travelled with the national judo team to Abu Dhabi, but it was not an official visit.Another Israeli minister, Ayoub Kara, then Minister of Communications, spoke in October 2018 at an international conference on telecommunications in Dubai.

Israel's normalisation accords with the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan - known as the Abraham Accords - were last year brokered by then US president Donald Trump's administration.

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