{"id":31803,"date":"2020-08-23T08:56:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T03:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=31803"},"modified":"2020-08-23T08:56:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T03:26:44","slug":"pompeo-to-visit-israel-and-uae-with-peace-security-challenges-posed-by-iran-and-china-on-agenda-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=31803","title":{"rendered":"Pompeo to visit Israel and UAE with peace, security challenges posed by Iran and China on Agenda, Sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Israel and the UAE announced earlier this month that they would normalise diplomatic ties and forge a broad new relationship.<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/pompeo-to-visit-israel-and-uae-with-peace-iran-and-china-on-agenda-sources-say\/article32420488.ece\">REUTERS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo\" src=\"https:\/\/th.thgim.com\/news\/international\/7b1nzq\/article32420487.ece\/alternates\/FREE_435\/POMPEO\">FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo | Photo Credit: REUTERS<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Israel on Monday and the United Arab Emirates a day later to discuss the countries\u2019 normalisation deal, two sources briefed on his itinerary said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also on Pompeo\u2019s agenda will be the security challenges posed by Iran and China in the region, said the sources, who declined to be identified by name or nationality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Israel and the UAE announced earlier this month that they would normalise diplomatic ties and forge a broad new relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the accord, which U.S. President Donald Trump helped broker, Israel agreed to suspend its planned annexation of areas of the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deal also firms up opposition to regional power Iran, which the UAE, Israel and the United States view as the main threat in the conflict-riven Middle East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, Trump\u2019s son-in-law, is expected to travel to Israel and the UAE in early September, and may stop in other countries as well, an administration official said. Kushner will be accompanied by Avi Berkowitz, Trump\u2019s Middle East envoy, the official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kushner and Berkowitz will thank Israel and the UAE for completing the deal, the official said.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel and the UAE announced earlier this month that they would normalise diplomatic ties and forge a broad new relationship. REUTERS FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo | Photo Credit: REUTERS U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Israel on Monday and the United Arab Emirates a day later to discuss the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}