The White House reported that US President Donald Trump urged Riyadh, in contact with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz, to negotiate with other Gulf states to resolve the dispute.
The White House statement added that Trump welcomed during the call the opening of Saudi airspace to flights between Israel and the UAE, starting with a commercial flight last week from Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi, which he described as "historic."
The White House said that Trump highlighted during the call the importance of the Israeli-Emirati normalization agreement, known as the "Abraham Agreement," and the two sides also discussed ways to enhance security and regional prosperity.
David Schenker, the US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, said that resolving the Gulf crisis is a priority for the Trump administration.
For its part, the official Saudi Press Agency stated that the Saudi monarch expressed during the call the Kingdom's appreciation for the efforts made by the United States to bring peace to the Middle East region.
The agency added that the Saudi monarch affirmed the Kingdom's keenness to reach a permanent and just solution to the Palestinian issue on the basis of the Arab Peace Initiative.
Saudi Arabia proposed the Arab Peace Initiative in 2002, in which the Arab countries offered to normalize relations with Israel in exchange for their agreement with the Palestinians to establish their state and the complete withdrawal of Israel from the lands it occupied in the 1967 war.