JERUSALEM, 17 October, 2020, (TON):  A delegation of top United States officials, including Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, will travel to Israel, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates in the coming days in support of recently signed normalization deals between the three countries.

The trip from October 17-20 seeks to strengthen recent US-brokered normalization deals between the three countries.

On August 13 the United States announced that Israel and the United Arab Emirates had signed a pact to normalize diplomatic relations and Bahrain followed suit less than a month later.

On Friday, the US Treasury Department said in a statement that Mnuchin would lead the delegation from October 17-20 “to support expanded economic cooperation” under the pacts brokered by US President Donald Trump’s administration.

During a ceremony at the White House, representatives from all three countries formally signed the agreements on September 15.

The treasury department said Mnuchin and the US delegation will join Israeli officials on a direct flight from Israel to Bahrain. They will meet with Bahraini officials in Manama before flying to Abu Dhabi, where “the first-ever Abraham Accords Business Summit” will be held.

However it was not immediately clear which Israeli, Bahraini or Emirati officials would take part.

When the Israel-Bahrain deal was signed, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), based in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, called it “another treacherous stab to the Palestinian.