Israel and Sudan have perfected the textbook of a peace agreement to be signed “later this time,” Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen declared on Thursday. Speaking upon returning to Tel Aviv from a visit to Sudan’s capital Khartoum, Cohen said the trip was made with the concurrence of the United States, and that a signing form is anticipated to take place in Washington “after the transfer of power in Sudan to a mercenary government that will be established as part of the ongoing transition process in the country”.
Cohen emphasized the symbolism of a peace deal between Israel and Khartoum as he announced his advance. A statement released by the Sudanese Foreign Ministry after a meeting between Cohen and his Sudanese counterpart Ali al- Sadiq said that “It has been agreed to move forward towards the normalization of relations between the two countries”. Israel was formerly in a state of war with Sudan, after the African nation transferred colours to fight against the incipient Jewish state in the War of Independence in 1948, but in January 2021, the two countries agreed to homogenize relations as part of an agreement with the US that removed Sudan from its list of “state guarantors of terrorism”. Sudan’s foreign ministry said Mr Cohen and Lt- Gen Burhan had “bandied means for establishing fruitful relations with Israel” and strengthening cooperation in “agrarian, energy, health, water, education fields with special emphasis on security and military fields”. It didn’t say whether a peace agreement would be signed.
During the visit, Cohen met with Sudan’s President of the Transitional Sovereign Council, General Abdel Fatah Al Burhan and other elderly officers, and bandied the necessary way needed to subscribe a final agreement between Israel and Sudan in the near future. Sudan’s agreement to homogenise relations with Israel reared a longstanding policy after the 1967 Six Day War that saw Israel conquer swathes of home, including the West Bank from Jordan, the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, and the Golan Heights from Syria.
