Trump Officials in Secret Talks with Azerbaijan, Central Asian States on Israel Ties
Trump’s representative visited Azerbaijan and met with President Ilham Aliyev, later contacted other countries, report
Washington: US President Donald Trump’s administration is active and negotiating to include Azerbaijan and several other Central Asian countries in the Abraham Accord to establish relations with Israel.
According to a foreign news agency, 5 sources informed that President Donald Trump’s administration is actively talking to Azerbaijan and the administration expects his relations with Israel to have a deep.
Sources said that Azerbaijan and other Central Asian countries have already had long -term relations with Israel, and the purpose of joining the deal is to showcase their focus on strengthening relations, including trade and military cooperation.
Sources added that another important point in terms of Azerbaijan is its strained relations with neighboring Armenia because Donald Trump is considering a peace deal between the two neighboring countries, but it is a condition for joining the Abraham Accord.
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He said the Trump administration has named several countries in this regard, but there are very organized and serious talks with Azerbaijan, and two sources said that the deal could be made within a month or a few weeks.
Sources said that Trump’s peace mission representative Steve Vitticov visited Azerbaijan’s capital Baku in March and met President Ilham Aliyev, and then Vaticov’s close aide Arya Lightstone also met President Aliyev and discussed Abraham Ecred.
The report said that as part of the talks, Azerbaijan officials contacted other Central Asian countries, including Kazakhstan, to include them for the expansion of the Abraham Accord.
It is not yet clear which of the other Central Asian countries has been contacted, while the region includes countries like Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
The US State Department official did not mention the names of the Central Asian countries, but said that the extension of the Abraham Accord is one of President Donald Trump’s basic goals.
Sources added that talks with Central Asian countries are still in the early stages, but talks with Azerbaijan have gone far beyond them.
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Sources made it clear that there are challenges yet and the contract is not guaranteed to be finalized because the progress in the talks between Azerbaijan and Armenia is slow.
It is to be noted that the Abraham Accord was signed in 2020 and 2021 in Donald Trump’s first presidency, and under the agreement, four Muslim countries established relations with Israel in US mediation.
The report said that as a result of Trump’s effort, his administration hopes that Saudi Arabia will also be convinced.
Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, has repeatedly made it clear that it will not take steps to recognize Israel unless Palestine is recognized as a state and it will not be easy for Saudi Arabia to make such a deal after the recent barbarism in Gaza.
Hunger is spreading every hundred due to Israeli brutal actions in Gaza and children are being martyred due to malnutrition while Israel has closed all aid routes. More than 60,000 Palestinians have been martyred in Gaza so far in Israeli war madness and millions are homeless, the majority of the Palestinians killed are children and women.
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