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We are LIVE tweeting the discussion – “Shifting Sands: Discussing the New Middle-East” with @AnwarGargash @ForeignMinistry @SecySanjay @maryashakil.

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.@AnwarGargash: From the perspective of UAE, the Abraham Accord is about three things – to address a strategic cul-de-sac in the region; to create more bridges and to reimagine the region in terms of mutual economic benefits. #Raisina2021

.@AnwarGargash: The process of unlocking immediate investment and economic opportunities between Israel and the UAE has already begun. #Raisina2021

.@ForeignMinistry: The Palestinian issue has been on top of Jordan’s agenda for many decades and Jordan has contributed and supported any effort that would revive a genuine peace process in the region.

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.@ForeignMinistry: Jordan has been contributing to any effort –whether regional, international, local, bilateral or multilateral—to support any possible contribution to revive this peace process in the Middle-East.

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.@ForeignMinistry: Jordan has unfortunately been impacted by all crisis in the Middle-East region—Syrian, Iraqi, terrorism and radicalisation—but the Palestinian issue remains the mother of all issues in the Middle-East. #Raisina2021

.@SecySanjay: We look at this region of West Asia and the Gulf as our extended neighbourhood, so we are intimately linked with everything that happens in that part of the world.
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.@SecySanjay: There are three broad trends that are emerging in this region— first, a change coming about due to a larger economic transformation and technological change. #Raisina2021

.@SecySanjay: The second trend is a sense of understanding – the Abraham Accord is one of the significant ones of that, where we have a negotiated settlement which is not coming out of a war or fear but out of optimism for the future.
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.@SecySanjay: As the youth constitutes a very large part of the population in West Asia and the Gulf, the third broad trend is the change that the youth is bringing about. #Raisina2021

.@SecySanjay: In the past the focus was on energy security and our human resources in the Gulf region, #Covid-19 brought about the importance of health security & food security. These will be two of the driving forces to determine how India leverages its position in the region.

.@SecySanjay: As we move into a digital era and look at some of the countries in the Gulf region looking ahead of the curve on the technological road, #India would be very pleased to play a partnership role with such economies.
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.@AnwarGargash: Without the de-escalation of political tensions and greater cooperation in the areas of investment, economy and technology, the #Middle-East region cannot expect to move forward and will lag behind others.
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.@SecySanjay: The dominant ideology that would prevail in this particular 21st century is the concept of #Indo-Pacific – our location is such that it would enable us to act as a bridge between the West Asia-Gulf region and the larger areas of Indo-Pacific. #Raisina2021

.@ForeignMinistry: Each country has reprioritised its goals and its agenda – for instance, Jordan had to not only revisit its priorities in the agricultural and pharmaceutical sectors, but also how to have self-sufficiency. #Raisina2021

.@SecySanjay: The most important shifting sand we see is that there is a certain sense of alignment that we see across the globe, in which we are aligning processes, looking at politically negotiated settlements, at options that are economic, technological and people-oriented.

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