FILE – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev attends a gathering with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the summit of the Commonwealth of Unbiased States on the Palace of the Nation in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Oct. 10, 2025.
Vladimir Smirnov/AP through Pool Sputnik Kremlin
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WASHINGTON — Kazakhstan is about to hitch the Abraham Accords between Israel and Arab and Muslim majority nations in a symbolic transfer geared toward boosting the initiative that was a trademark of President Donald Trump’s first administration.
The motion, introduced Thursday, is essentially symbolic as Kazakhstan has had diplomatic relations with Israel since 1992 and is way farther geographically from Israel than the opposite Abraham Accord nations — Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates.
These nations agreed to normalize relations with Israel on account of becoming a member of the accords, one thing Kazakhstan did shortly after gaining independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The transfer was first confirmed to The Related Press by three U.S. officers who insisted on anonymity to element plans that hadn’t but been made public. Hours later, Trump posted on his social media website that he’d had “a fantastic name between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, of Israel, and President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, of Kazakhstan” and that Kazakhstan is the “first Nation of my Second Time period to hitch the Abraham Accords, the primary of many.”
Trump known as Kazakhstan becoming a member of “a significant step ahead in constructing bridges throughout the World” and mentioned “extra Nations are lining as much as embrace Peace and Prosperity by way of my Abraham Accords.”
A signing ceremony would quickly make it official, Trump, and “there are numerous extra Nations attempting to hitch this membership of STRENGTH.”
“A lot extra to return in uniting Nations for Stability and Progress — Actual progress, actual outcomes,” Trump wrote. “BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS!”
Trump, a Republican, made the announcement shortly earlier than the beginning of a summit he hosted Thursday night with the leaders of the 5 Central Asian nations, together with Kazakhstan.
Regardless of their earlier long-standing ties, the U.S. officers mentioned Kazakhstan’s participation within the Abraham Accords with Israel was necessary as it might improve their bilateral commerce and cooperation and signaled that Israel is turning into much less remoted internationally, notably after large criticism and protests over its conduct within the battle in opposition to Hamas in Gaza.
One official maintained that Trump’s nascent peace plan for Gaza had “fully modified the paradigm” and that many nations have been now prepared to “transfer towards the circle of peace” that it had created.
That official mentioned particular areas of enhanced Israeli-Kazakh cooperation would come with protection, cybersecurity, power and meals know-how, though all of these have been topics of earlier bilateral agreements relationship again to the mid-Nineteen Nineties.
Forward of Thursday evening’s summit between Trump and the Central Asian leaders, Secretary of State Marco Rubio had a working breakfast with Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, though the State Division made no point out of something associated to Israel.
Rubio and Tokayev “mentioned increasing alternatives for business commerce and funding in addition to elevated cooperation with Kazakhstan in power, know-how, and infrastructure,” the division mentioned in a press release.
