By Steve Holland WASHINGTON, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabi
By Steve Holland
WASHINGTON, Nov 30 (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia agreed on Monday to let Israeli airliners cross its airspace en path to the United Arab Emirates after talks between Saudi officers and White Home senior adviser Jared Kushner, a senior Trump administration official stated.
Kushner and Center East envoys Avi Berkowitz and Brian Hook raised the problem shortly after they arrived in Saudi Arabia for talks. “We had been capable of reconcile the problem,” the official instructed Reuters.
The settlement was hammered out simply hours earlier than Israel’s first industrial flight to the UAE was deliberate on Tuesday morning. The Israir flight was liable to being canceled with no overflight settlement.
The direct flights are an offshoot of normalization offers Israel reached this 12 months with the UAE, Bahrain and Sudan.
“This could resolve any points that ought to happen with Israeli carriers taking folks from Israel to the UAE and again and to Bahrain,” the official stated.
Kushner and his workforce had been to satisfy Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman later this week, in addition to the emir of Kuwait. One purpose of the journey is to attempt to persuade Gulf Cooperation Council international locations to finish a three-year blockade of Qatar.
(Reporting by Steve Holland; Modifying by Jonathan Oatis and Dan Grebler)
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