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Trump Invites 1000 People to Eyewitness 'Historic Moment'


Tue 15 Sep 2020 | 04:22 PM
Yassmine Elsayed

These moments, the White House is being prepared for the ceremony of UAE and Bahrian signing two peace agreements with Israel, with 1,000 guests were invited by US President Donald Trump to attend the ceremony at the White House South Lawn.

The signing event will be started by Israel signing agreements separately with each of the two countries before the United States joins the three countries to sign a joint document known as the "Abraham Accords."

The  signing of the accords will be followed by speeches and the playing of the countries’ national anthems and will be concluded with a dinner. The wearing of masks at the outdoor event will be encouraged but will not be mandatory.

US President Donald Trump will sign the accords as an observer, according to a statement by a senior White House official on Monday. The text of the peace deals will only be revealed to the public after the signing.

The official said that the Israeli-Emirati document would be much longer than the Israeli-Bahraini agreement, because the agreement with Manama was only announced days ago, while the agreement with Abu Dhabi was announced on August 13th.

He pointed out that the issue of Muslims' access to the Temple Mount in occupied Jerusalem was not mentioned in the documents that will be signed.

Under the agreement, whose terms and details have not been fully disclosed, the UAE and Bahrain will establish diplomatic, commercial and economic relations with Israel, which has not waged a war against them before, and the two agreements will strengthen an informal alliance against Iranian threats and Turkish ambitions.