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A Saudi envoy on a rare visit to the occupied West Bank pledged Tuesday that the Palestinian cause will be “a cornerstone” of any normalisation deal the oil-rich kingdom may strike with Israel.
The delegation headed by Nayef al-Sudairi was Saudi Arabia’s first in three decades to the West Bank, which Israel has occupied along with other territories since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
“The Palestinian matter is a fundamental pillar,” Sudairi told journalists after meeting top Palestinian diplomat Riyad al-Maliki in Ramallah.
“And it’s certain that the Arab initiative, which was presented by the kingdom in 2002, is a cornerstone of any upcoming deal.”
