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Kazakhstan to join Abraham Accords, Trump administration official confirms to ToI
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleJacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief
Kazakhstan is the country that will join the Abraham Accords this evening, a senior Trump administration official confirms to The Times of Israel.
US special envoy Steve Witkoff revealed earlier this afternoon that a country would be joining the Abraham Accords normalization agreements brokered by the Trump administration between Israel and several of its Arab and Muslim neighbors.
But Kazakhstan will be the first country to join the accords that already has ties with Israel, establishing diplomatic relations with the Jewish state in 1992.
The Trump administration believes that adding the Muslim majority country to the Abraham Accords will revive the initiative that took a major hit as a result of the Gaza war, a US official tells The Times of Israel.
“It will become the alliance for Arab-Muslim ties with Israel,” the US official says, acknowledging that Washington no longer wants to limit the accords to countries that don’t yet have ties with Israel.
US President Donald Trump is already slated to host Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev at the White House this evening, along with the leaders of four other Central Asian countries, as Washington seeks to expand its influence in the region.
Earlier today, representatives of Kazakhstan and the US signed a memorandum of cooperation in the field of critical minerals at a meeting in Washington, according to a readout from the Central Asian country.
The Times of Israel Community.