Washington: In a major foreign policy development, the United States announced that Kazakhstan will formally join the Abraham Accords, marking the first entry of a Central Asian nation into the landmark peace framework that seeks to normalize relations between Israel and Muslim-majority countries. The announcement was made on Thursday night by U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff, signaling a renewed push by the Trump administration to broaden the accords’ geographic and diplomatic scope.

According to officials, President Donald Trump held a trilateral conversation earlier this week with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, paving the way for the decision. The move follows the president’s high-profile meeting with leaders of five Central Asian states

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