 During the late 1980s, several Israeli embassies were opened/reopened in former Eastern Bloc states as the Cold War ended.At the beginning of the 1990s, Israel established official relations with the Soviet Union, India and China.The prospects of a Middle East peace agreement in the mid-1990s led to Israeli government offices appearing as trade representative offices being opened in a handful of Arab states such as Bahrain, Qatar, Tunisia, Oman and Morocco.