The UAE, Israel and Jordan signed a new Memorandum of Understanding on Tuesday on an Emirati-brokered agreement signed a year ago to have Jordan supply solar power to Israel, while the latter transfers desalinated water to the Kingdom, reportedly. Jordanian news agency and Israeli newspapers.
The Jordan news agency stated that the memorandum, signed on the sidelines of the climate summit in Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt, underlines “the continuation of feasibility studies, to establish two opposing projects, interconnected and dependent on each other. other, with the aim of building a water desalination plant in the Mediterranean Sea (Blue Prosperity) in exchange for the construction of a water desalination plant in the Mediterranean Sea (Blue Boom) A clean power plant in Jordan (Green Prosperity ).
He added that the memorandum signed by the three parties in the presence of US climate envoy John Kerry “involves only the expression of intent by the three parties and does not create or prejudice any rights or obligations under international law.”
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Signing of an MOU between the United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Israel to advance the implementation plans of the Prosperity Project in the presence of @John Kerry the United States Special Climate Envoy @ClimateEnvoy # COP27 # COP27IL #GreenIsrael https://t.co/pF1uFVbCSV pic.twitter.com/05AKqYupc6
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The memorandum provides for the pursuit of progress in benefiting from the assistance and support of the relevant international bodies and partners, voluntarily or when necessary, provided that all parties agree to prepare the necessary plans, “so that there is what can be seen during the next climate summit in November. ” from next year in the United Arab Emirates “.The times of Israel“.
It is interesting to note that the three governments signed on the sidelines of the Dubai Expo, on November 22 last year, the “Declaration of Intent”, which provided that the three parties would begin studying the possibility of establishing two opposite, interconnected and interdependent projects, the first is the construction of a clean power plant in Jordan with a capacity of (600) kilowatts, financed by the United Arab Emirates. The second is a water desalination project in the Mediterranean Sea, which supplies Jordan with 200 million cubic meters of water every year.
The MoU was signed by the Jordanian government, the Minister of Water and Irrigation Muhammad Al-Najjar, on the side of the United Arab Emirates, the Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Maryam Al-Muhairi, and the outgoing Minister of Regional Cooperation, Issawi Freij, for the Israeli side.
