The ceremony took place on the balconies of the White House.
Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyane, crown prince of Abu Dhabi, known as MBZ, preferred to decline the invitation and delegated his powers to his brother, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates.
The same goes for Bahrain: Abdel Latif al-Zayani, the head of diplomacy, represents his monarch.
Benyamin Netanyahu, the only leader of the trio, is however very present and the event remains nonetheless remarkable.
Wearing a mask is recommended but not compulsory.
"Nobody believed it, thank you and bravo!"
, says Donald Trump, referring to the advent of a
"new Middle East".
"The dawn rises on peace,"
the Israeli Prime Minister said with delight.
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In addition to the individual bilateral agreements signed by Israel, the UAE and Bahrain, all three sign a common trilateral document.
These accords are emphatically nicknamed by Washington the
"Abraham Accords"
, named after the Patriarch of the Three
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