Hour ago, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz stressed to President Donald Trump that there would be no normalisation with Israel without Palestinian statehood.
The monarch' remarks, which were published by the kingdom’s state news agency, came during a phone call between both leaders.
The leaders spoke by phone following a historic U.S. brokered accord last month under which the United Arab Emirates agreed to become the third Arab state to normalise ties with Israel after Egypt and Jordan.
King Salman told Trump he appreciated U.S. efforts to support peace and that Saudi Arabia wanted to see a fair and permanent solution to the Palestinian issue based on the Arab Peace Initiative proposed by the kingdom in 2002.
Under the proposal, Arab nations have offered Israel normalised ties in return for a statehood deal with the Palestinians and full Israeli withdrawal from territory captured in the 1967 Middle East war.
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