Arabs and Israelis mull regional free-trade pact at Bahrain talks
Negotiators meet for backchannel discussions aimed at turning the Abraham Accords into an economic spark plug for the Middle East and Africa
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(Left to right) Oren Eisner, president of the Jeffrey M. Talpins Foundation; Shaikh Abdulla bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, undersecretary for political affairs at Bahrain’s Foreign Ministry; William F. Wechsler, senior director of the Atlantic Council's N7 Initiative; and Morocco's Abduloauhed Rahal, director general of the trade division at Morocco’s Ministry of Industry and Trade, at the conference's opening dinner in Manama, Bahrain
Nearly three years after establishing diplomatic ties, representatives from a group of Arab countries and Israel met this week in Bahrain to brainstorm ideas about forming a regional free-trade alliance.The discussions were unofficial and meant to lay the groundwork...