We, the undersigned, recognize the importance of maintaining and strengthening peace in the Middle East and around the world based on mutual understanding and coexistence, as well as respect for human dignity and freedom, including religious freedom.

Hours after the August 13 announcement of the U.S.-brokered normalization agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, senior Bahraini officials called President Trump's senior adviser Jared Kushner and White House envoy Avi Berkowitz with a message: "We want to be next," U.S. officials involved in the talks tell me.

The news comes only a few weeks after the United Arab Emirates and Israel agreed to normalize relations.

Ambassadors from the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Bahrain participated in the rolling out of the White House's peace plan.