
Trump says he anticipates an expansion of the Abraham accords soon.
Trump predicts Saudi Arabia will join the Abraham Accords, leading more nations to normalize Israel ties.
Abraham Accords – (Special Correspondent / Web Desk) – US President Donald Trump stated that he expects an expansion of the Abraham Accords shortly and believes Saudi Arabia would join the accord that normalized diplomatic relations between Israel and some Arab states.
“I hope Saudi Arabia and others will go in. “I think when Saudi Arabia goes in, everyone goes in,” Trump said in an interview broadcast on Friday by Fox Business Network.
Trump stated on Wednesday that he had “some very good conversations” with states that had expressed interest in joining the accords.
“I think that they’re going to all go in very soon,” Trump said in the interview, which was recorded on Thursday.
The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed the accords in 2020 during Trump’s first term in the White House, breaking a longstanding taboo to become the first Arab states to recognise Israel in a quarter century. Morocco and Sudan followed suit.
Trump, who convened Muslim and European leaders in Egypt to discuss the future of the Gaza Strip on Monday, has presented his plan to end the onslaught in Gaza as the catalyst for a wider regional peace settlement.
He said then that more countries would join the Abraham Accords initiative and even floated the idea of a peace deal between arch Middle East enemies Iran and Israel, telling the Israeli parliament he thought Iran wanted one: “Wouldn’t it be nice?”
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Earlier in June, Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar ruled out the possibility of Pakistan joining the Abraham Accords, stating that such a move would effectively mean abandoning the country’s longstanding support for a two-state solution to the Palestinian conflict and recognising Israel.
“We are not ready to recognise Israel until the two-state solution to the Palestine conflict is accepted,” Dar said. “There is no change in our stated policy on the Palestine issue.”
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