Witkoff: US to announce additional country joining Abraham Accords tonight

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6 November 2025, 7:40 pm

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Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief

From left, Bahrain Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US president Donald Trump, and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, sit during the Abraham Accords signing ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House, in Washington, September 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The Trump administration will announce tonight that an additional country will join the Abraham Accords, US special envoy Steve Witkoff reveals.

“I’m flying back to Washington tonight because we’re going to announce another country coming into the Abraham Accords, ” Witkoff says during an on-stage interview at the America Business Forum in Miami.

Witkoff doesn’t reveal which country will be joining the Arab and Muslim countries that have normalized relations with Israel in the accords first brokered by US President Donald Trump at the end of his first term in 2020.

In August, Reuters reported that the Trump administration was eyeing Azerbaijan as the next country to join the Abraham Accords, along with other Central Asian allies of the US. Azerbaijan already has longstanding relations with Israel, meaning that an expansion of the accords to include them would largely be symbolic, focusing on strengthening ties in areas like trade and military cooperation, said the sources, who requested anonymity to discuss private conversations.