An official Israeli delegation will visit Sudan on Sunday to promote the process of normalizing relations between the two countries, the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation said.
The visit will be the first since US President Donald Trump announced last month that Sudan would start normalizing ties with Israel with the two set to sign deals covering agriculture, trade, aviation and migration.
An Israeli source said the delegation will include experts and officials from the National Security Council and the Foreign Ministry.
The Sudanese government has not confirmed the delegation’s planned visit.
Last month, Netanyahu said that Israeli and Sudanese delegations would meet to discuss commercial and agricultural cooperation.
A senior Sudanese official had earlier told Asharq Al-Awsat that Israel has officially requested Sudan’s government to allow its flights to pass through the country’s airspace after the two parties signed an initial agreement to normalize relations.
Yedioth Ahronot reported that Israel’s El Al Airlines operated its first commercial flight through Sudanese airspace on Sunday.
The flight departed from Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport to Uganda’s Entebbe International Airport. It departed Entebbe back to Israel on the same day with 153 Ugandans who will be trained on modern agricultural methods.
