The foreign ministers of Israel, the United Arab Emirates, India and the US plan to hold a meeting on Monday evening to bolster coordination.
The office of Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said the minister will hold a meeting with his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in West Jerusalem on Monday, while US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan will participate through a Zoom call.
The meeting is part of the Israeli government’s efforts to build strong international relations that should strengthen its position in the region and in the world and contribute in offering a strong and smart push for the peace process between Tel Aviv and its neighbors, said the statement.
Meanwhile, Sweden's Foreign Minister Ann Linde was visiting Tel Aviv and Ramallah to push forward the peace process between the Palestinians and Israelis.
Early this month, Lapid had kicked off efforts to restore contacts with Sweden, after relations between the two sides hit a low in 2015 when Stockholm recognized the State of Palestine.
Political sources said that Sweden has not changed its position, which will be reflected in Linde’s scheduled visit on Tuesday to Ramallah, where she will hold talks with Palestinians President Mahmoud Abbas, Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh and Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki.
Linde told Israel’s Yediot Aharonot: “I think my country’s government does want to promote a two-state solution.”
She said Sweden’s relations with Israel are important and that her government wants to have good ties with it.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry has expressed its desire to improve relations with Stockholm. However, it noted that “opening the file of the permanent settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not viable at this stage, although we very much want a settlement.”
