President Trump will send two top deputies to the Middle East in the coming days in hopes of building on the recent peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo leaves Sunday for a six-nation tour that will take him to Israel, Bahrain, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Sudan, sources told the Associated Press Saturday.
Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, heads to Israel, Bahrain, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Morocco a few days later.
Both trips aim to finalize one or more normalization deals patterned after the Israel-UAE agreement, a US-brokered accord that established full diplomatic relations and direct travel between the two nations.
Trump announced the surprise pact in an Aug. 13 tweet, calling it a “HUGE breakthrough.”
The long-sought covenant was seen as a major foreign policy victory for Trump ahead of November’s presidential election.
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