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Witkoff says will announce new country to enter the Abraham Accords on Thursday night

AL-MONITOR
Nov 6, 2025
Steve Witkoff, U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East, speaks during the America Business Forum at Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida, U.S. November 6, 2025. REUTERS/Marco Bello
Steve Witkoff, U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East, speaks during the America Business Forum at Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida, U.S. November 6, 2025. REUTERS/Marco Bello — Marco Bello

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff said that a new country would be announced on Thursday night as entering the Abraham Accords that have normalized relations between Israel and Muslim-majority nations.

Witkoff told a business forum in Florida that he would be returning to Washington for the announcement, declining to say which country it would be.

(Reporting by Simon Lewis, Editing by Franklin Paul)