Speaking at Riyadh’s Gulf Cooperation Council on Wednesday, President Donald Trump reiterated his need to do enterprise with Iran and known as for the event of the Abraham Agreement by including extra nations to the historic settlement.
Trump made his feedback whereas talking to leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council as a part of his four-day go to to the area.
“I wish to signal a contract with Iran. I wish to do one thing if attainable. But for that to occur, we have now to cease the terrifying sponsors, cease the bloody proxy conflict and confirm the pursuit of nuclear weapons completely and with a take a look at. They can not have nuclear weapons,” Trump mentioned.
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US President Donald Trump will communicate on the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Leaders’ Summit held on the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on May 14, 2025. The Council is dedicated to regional stability, defence cooperation and power coverage within the Gulf nations. Trump is participating in a multinational tour of the Gulf area, specializing in increasing financial ties and strengthening safety cooperation with main US allies. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images) (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Trump praised the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain for his “their imaginative and prescient and braveness in signing the historic Abraham Agreement,” an settlement mediated by the United States in 2020. The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain acknowledged Israeli sovereignty and established full diplomatic relations. It was the primary time that Israel had established peace with the Arab states within the Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty since 1994.
“We will proceed to make that progress by including extra nations to the Abraham settlement sooner or later,” Trump mentioned.
US President Donald Trump (R. 2) and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (R.) will put together to take photographs with the chief on the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Leader’s Summit held on the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on May 14, 2025. (Get McNamee/Getty Images)
The remarks made shortly after Trump met on the sidelines with interim Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, got here simply after Trump introduced that his administration was lifting sanctions in opposition to Syria.
Trump additionally mentioned that Lebanon “has a brand new alternative sooner or later to be free of the grips of Hezbollah terrorists if the brand new president and prime minister can rebuild an efficient Lebanese nation.”
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“This is a once-generation alternative to thrive and construct a peaceable Lebanon with its neighbors,” Trump mentioned.
The basic view as US President Donald Trump shall be attending the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Leader’s summit held on the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on May 14, 2025. (Get McNamee/Getty Images)
At the top of his remarks, Trump appealed extra broadly to the area, saying, “We intend to construct a Middle East, a crossroads in commerce, diplomacy and cultural that thrives within the geographical centres of the world. That’s how it’s and it’s the coronary heart of the world.”
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Trump will head to Qatar on Wednesday to his second cease on his four-day Middle East tour.