USA Not successful in Weaning Away The Arab World From Russia
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is wrapping up his Middle Eastern tour. It started in Palestine and Israel with the Negev Summit attended by the top diplomats of Israel, Egypt, Morocco, the UAE and Bahrain.
Blinken also intends to visit Morocco and Algeria. The tour should launch the implementation of an ambitious project by the US proposed back during the Trump administration to build an Arab-Israeli coalition on an anti-Iranian and partially on an anti-Russian basis.
“The neutral position adopted by the majority of Arab countries is viewed by the US as virtually pro-Russian. This concerns even Egypt that voted for the UN Security Council’s anti-Russian resolution but then clarified that the country was not ready for a conflict with Russia,” said Russian International Affairs Council expert Kirill Semenov.
Washington’s pressure on Arab countries in order to convince them at least not to facilitate the circumvention of sanctions will remain, the expert asserted. “Yet, so far there are no grounds to think that the Americans will succeed.
The positions, if not anti-American, then directed at diversifying connections, are too strong in Arab countries. For the majority of them, it is important to preserve multivectorness in foreign policy. In this case, the Americans may adjust the stance of a number of Arab countries yet insignificantly,” he explained.
