Next Abraham Accords summit in Morocco

The Abraham accords signatories will meet in Morocco for a conference, Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said on Monday, according to Reuters.

The conference will be held in Morocco in March, according to Cohen, who assumed office last week as a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new hard-right coalition administration.

“Expanding the accords to other countries is not a matter of ‘if’ but of ‘when’,” said Cohen

Israel’s connections with its present trading partners, he continued, had increased trade by $2.85 billion in 2022 and made “a big contribution to security (and) regional stability.”

To mark the first anniversary of the Abraham accords, Israel held a virtual summit in September 2021 in which Yaer Lapid, the foreign minister of Israel, Nasser Bourita of Morocco, Anwar Gargash, the minister of state for foreign affairs of the United Arab Emirates, and Sheikh Abdullah bin Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa, the ambassador of Bahrain to the United States, all participated.

According to the trilateral agreement to reestablish diplomatic ties between Morocco and Israel, Morocco reopened its liaison office in Israel over a year ago after it had been closed for twenty years.

It is unclear if plans set for the summit which included the elevate Morocco’s liaison office in Tel Aviv to the rank of the embassy are still in place.

With several Israeli officials visiting Morocco in order to negotiate agreements in various areas, Israel seeks to increase collaboration on issues ranging from military to politics to investment to agricultural to tourism to energy and more.