On Monday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will arrive in Jerusalem for talks dealing with the normalization agreement announced by Israel and the United Arab Emirates, and his tour may include other Arab countries.
A spokesman for Pompeo in Washington said that the latter would discuss with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the file of Iran, economic exchange, and deepening relations between Tel Aviv and the rest of the region.
After Israel, Pompeo will go to the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, to discuss the "transitional period", in addition to the relationship between Israel and Sudan, and then move to Bahrain and the Emirates, according to his spokesman.
Pompeo is scheduled to meet with Sudanese Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok and Chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, to support the deepening of Sudanese-Israeli relations.
This will be the first visit of a US Secretary of State to Khartoum in decades, amid signs of improvement in relations between the two countries, the latest of which is the agreement of the two capitals to exchange diplomatic representation at the level of ambassadors.
In Manama, Pompeo intends to meet Bahraini Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, and Pompeo will conclude his tour in Abu Dhabi, where he will hold talks with his Emirati counterpart Abdullah bin Zayed, including the normalization agreement with Israel and other regional issues.
Since the agreement with the UAE, there has been much speculation about other candidate countries to normalize their relations with Israel, such as Bahrain, the Sultanate of Oman and even Sudan.