President Trump is expected to welcome Kazakhstan into the Abraham Accords, signaling cooperation in relations with Israel.
“This is going to show that the Abraham Accords is a club that many countries want to be a member of and it will be a step for turning the page on the war in Gaza and moving forward towards more peace and cooperation in the region,” a U.S. official told Axios.
In May, President Donald Trump urged Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa to join the Abraham Accords.
In June, Special Envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, told CNBC that the historic Abraham Accords agreement may soon expand.
“One of the President’s key objectives is that the Abraham Accords be expanded, that more countries come into it, and we are working on that, in my team and in coordination with the Secretary of State and the entire State Department,” Witkoff said. “We think we’re going to have some pretty big announcements on countries that are now coming into the Abraham Peace Accords.”
Witkoff explained that the Trump administration is hoping for “normalization across an array of countries that maybe people would have never contemplated would come in.” He added that a possible expansion would be a “stabilizer in the Middle East.”
The Abraham Accords were a set of agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan in 2020. The accords declared that the countries “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,” and “encourage efforts to promote interfaith and intercultural dialogue to advance a culture of peace among the three Abrahamic religions and all humanity.”
