The Negev Conference, which began this week in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, included high-level delegations from Israel and the six Conference Members: the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt, Morocco, the United States.

Alun Oshivez, the director general of the ministry of foreign affairs, as well as officials from the ministries of agriculture, health, defense, intelligence, tourism, energy, education, the economy, the water authority, and foreign affairs make up the Israeli delegation.

أصدر مسؤولون من البحرين ومصر وإسرائيل والمغرب والإمارات والولايات المتحدة إطار التعاون الإقليمي لمنتدى النقب. تحدد هذه الوثيقة الهامة الإستراتيجية التوجيهية لدعم الازدهار والتكامل الإقليمي. https://t.co/GmCznIehPr

— U.S. Embassy Morocco (@USEmbMorocco) January 12, 2023

The potential of holding the Negev Forum Foreign Ministers’ Summit in Morocco in the near future was brought up during the discussion. Eli Cohen, the Israeli foreign minister, would likely attend, and the summit would likely take place in the Sahara region of Morocco and the city of Dakhla.

The working groups of the Forum discussed potential areas of collaboration in security, intelligence, economics, agriculture, water, tourism, and other fields.

اختتم كبار المسؤولين في #NegevForum اجتماعاتهم في أبو ظبي، حيث أطلقوا إطار التعاون الإقليمي لمنتدى النقب ووضعوا مقترحات لتعزيز التكامل والتعاون الإقليمي. https://t.co/0VPB69e943

— U.S. Embassy Morocco (@USEmbMorocco) January 12, 2023

With the participation of the foreign ministers of the six nations, the Negev Forum was held for the first time last March at Kibbutz Sadeh Booker in the Negev region of Israel. Its goal was to activate the “Abraham” Agreements on normalization between Arab states and Israel in an effort by Israel to forge an alliance to counter Iran.

This is the third meeting of the Negev Forum Steering Committee; the first two were held virtually in June 2022 in Bahrain and October 2022.

The Negev region lies in the historical south of Palestine and is surrounded by Jordan’s Arba Valley on the east and Egypt’s Sinai on the south-west. The majority of the area’s residents are Palestinian Bedouin tribes who were occupied by Israel in 1948, also known as the Palestinian Year of the Nakba.

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Morocco’s voice and diplomacy have a “very considerable” impact on the regional and global management of numerous issues and concerns, according to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

“Morocco is first and foremost an important partner for us, and we have had a long relationship with them.” It is crucial to us because we obviously deal bilaterally on a variety of problems. In an interview with the station “Medi1 TV,” Blinken highlighted that “we act jointly at the regional level where Morocco’s voice and diplomacy have a very important impact.”

On a regional level, the US Secretary of State described the Kingdom’s diplomacy as having a significant impact in handling the situation in the Sahel and the Libyan crisis, describing Washington’s collaboration with Morocco as “vital.”

Morocco, according to the American official, also plays a key role in the worldwide management of a number of concerns, including the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change.

“Morocco has been highly effective in the vaccine effort” against the Covid-19 pandemic, according to Blinken, who also stated that the US and the Kingdom are cooperating in the fight against the pandemic and looking at what they can accomplish globally, including in Africa.

Regarding climate change, he stated that the Kingdom has made significant progress in addressing the crisis, and that the Morocco-US partnership “acts not just in the region, but increasingly at the global level.”

Referring to the Negev Summit, which brought together the foreign ministers of Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, the United States and Israel, the Secretary of State emphasized that the summit reflects a common desire to jointly produce opportunities for the people of each country by creating links between students and citizens, and by focusing on issues that impact daily life such as investment, infrastructure, climate and global health.

This summit, he added, also illustrates the common will to work on security issues without setting aside the future of the Palestinian people, emphasizing the need to establish a state for the Palestinians and to invest in their future.

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Morocco next week to address regional security and international issues, said Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Yael Lempert on Thursday.

Secretary Blinken’s Travel to Israel, the West Bank, Morocco, and Algeria – United States Department of State https://t.co/JgvllGOejJ

— U.S. Embassy Morocco (@USEmbMorocco) March 24, 2022

Earlier this month, US media claimed that Saudi and UAE leaders disregarded White House calls to discuss ways to expand oil production in the midst of the West’s efforts to isolate Russia over its special military operation in Ukraine.

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The US Secretary had stated the following on the 11th of December: “Morocco’s efforts to promote tolerance – from its historical tradition of protecting its Jewish minority to signing the Marrakech Declaration to yesterday’s agreement with Israel – are a model for the region and for the world as a whole,” adding that “The United States, Israel and Morocco have chosen peace and the world is a better place,” further praising the decision to resume diplomatic relations between Israel and Morocco as another remarkable step towards peace.

On the same date, Ambassador Omar Hilale announced at the joint debate of the General Assembly on humanitarian assistance that Morocco is contributing to humanitarian action and peacekeeping operations around the world and particularly in Africa, further highlighting that Morocco has actually always been among the first countries to provide humanitarian aid whenever necessary to people affected by both natural disasters and armed conflicts reaching even more milestones in keeping and achieving peace.

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