[Kuwait Times] Lydia Georgi - Saudi participation in a U.S.-hosted peace meeting does not mean that Riyadh is normalizing relations, Saudi analysts said on Monday. It was natural that Saudi Arabia should attend Tuesday's conference at Annapolis since it was the author of the Arab peace plan serving as one of the bases of the meeting, the pundits said. Normalization will come only after peace negotiations are completed, but at the same time Riyadh's attendance alongside more than a dozen Arab countries "will show the Israeli side that we are ready for normalization if (Israel) meets all the conditions," said Anwar Eshki, who heads a Jeddah-based private think tank.
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