Although it is only an interim document, the declaration with Bahrain could well be sent to the cabinet for ratification and, in all likelihood, also to the Knesset, Walla reported.
A delegation from the United Arab Emirates will arrive in Israel on Tuesday to move forward with the respective Abu Dhabi Standardization Agreement. The United Arab Emirates and Israel are further ahead of the process, having agreed to normalize a month before Bahrain did the same. As a result, Israel and the United Arab Emirates signed a more detailed peace agreement, which would have more legal influence than the peace declaration signed with Bahrain.
– Avi Berkowitz (Aviberkow45) October 15, 2020
However, due to considerations about the coronavirus, the UAE delegation left Ben Gurion Airport and returned home the same day.
“Right now, it’s a little ‘touch and go’. It is imaginable that the meetings will take place at or near the airport,” Science and Technology Minister Yizhar Shai told Tel Aviv radio station 102 FM on Friday.
On Thursday, the Knesset approved Israel’s standardization agreement with the United Arab Emirates by an overwhelming majority, while ensuring that it is ratified in the near future.
Eighty lawmakers voted in favour of the agreement, many of them from the opposition. Only thirteen MPs, all on the non-unusual Arab-majority list, voted against the agreement and criticized it as a ploy to undermine the Palestinian people.
Now approved through the Knesset, the so-called Abrahamic Agreements will return to the offices of ministers, who will vote for them again. Once ratified, the agreement enters into force for Israel, but full diplomatic relations will be established between the two countries. until the UAE also ratifies the agreement.
Emirati officials have begun the procedure for approving and ratifying the agreement, which was signed through both parties in Washington on September 15, but it is unclear when it will be concluded.
Once either party has ratified the agreement, the treaty will be sent to the Secretary-General of the United Nations for registration in the United Nations Treaty Collection, a collection of foreign treaties.