Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today, Sunday, that Israeli commercial aircraft have started flying in Sudan's airspace, noting that the new air corridor is the result of the important meeting he held two weeks ago in Uganda with the President of the Sovereignty Council, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan.
"Now we are looking at rapid normalization," Netanyahu said in a speech to a number of American Jewish leaders. The first Israeli aircraft passed yesterday in Sudan's airspace. ” He pointed out that this airline reduced the flight from Israel to South America by about three hours.
Khartoum said on February 5 that it had given Israeli aircraft initial approval to fly in Sudanese airspace, which was two days after the proof of the meeting with Netanyahu in Uganda.
The meeting, which brought together Netanyahu in Uganda two weeks ago, is the first of its kind, announced by a senior Sudanese official on the Israeli side since Sudan's independence in 1956.
The office of the Israeli Prime Minister revealed in a statement on Twitter after the meeting that Netanyahu and Al-Burhan agreed to "start cooperation leading to the normalization of relations between the two countries."
A day later, Al-Burhan issued a brief statement, after a joint meeting of the Councils of Sovereignty and the Ministers, in which he said that he met Netanyahu "from his responsibility to the importance of tireless work to maintain and maintain Sudanese national security and achieve the supreme interests of the people."