President Donald Trump said Monday evening that he did not discuss Saudi Arabia's accession to the Abraham Accords with the kingdom, according to Abu Ali Express. When asked if he had received any indication from Riyadh on the matter, Trump replied: 'We didn't talk about that.'
President Donald Trump stated Monday evening that he has not discussed Saudi Arabia's joining the Abraham Accords with the Saudi leadership, according to a report by Abu Ali Express. The comment came in response to a journalist's question about whether he had received any indication from Riyadh regarding its accession to the normalization framework.
Trump's brief denial follows a series of recent statements on the matter. Over the past week, Trump has repeatedly tied Saudi-Israeli normalization to the pending US-Saudi civilian nuclear agreement. On July 24, The Zioneer reported Trump saying that Saudi Arabia must join the Abraham Accords to secure a civilian nuclear deal, with no uranium enrichment permitted. Later that day, he also said he did not explicitly discuss the deal with the Energy Minister. The White House has previously attributed the idea of linking the nuclear deal to the Accords to Trump himself, not to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The current statement appears to lower expectations for a rapid Saudi decision, though the remarks do not contradict Trump's earlier position that the Accords are a prerequisite for a nuclear deal. The status of US-Saudi negotiations remains unclear, and no formal Saudi response has been reported.
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