Oman: We will not join the agreement to normalize relations with Israel.
Oman’s Foreign Minister stated that reaching a nuclear agreement is in the interest of the region and the world, stating that Muscat will not join the agreement on normalization of relations with Tel Aviv.
Oman’s Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi stressed in an interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro that Muscat would not join the agreement to normalize relations with the Zionist regime.
According to a report today (Saturday) by Al-Khaleej Online news website and Monte Carlo radio website, quoted by Figaro, Badr al-Bousaidi stated that Oman is “the first country on the [Persian Gulf] side since the agreement reached at Camp David in “1979 has promoted peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis.”
However, the Omani foreign minister stressed that Muscat would not join the “Abraham” agreements (normalization of relations with the Zionist regime) “because the country prefers initiatives that support the Palestinian people.”
Al-Busaidi added that any success in the Abraham Accords “must be based on a two-state solution and lead to a final, lasting and just solution to the Palestinian cause.”
In another part of the interview, he addressed the Vienna talks and did not endorse the secret talks between the monarchies of Oman, Iran and the United States; But he said reaching a new agreement was in the interest of the Middle East and the world.
He went on to say that the United States is changing the arrangement of its forces in the Middle East and will not leave the region.
