Congress: 119 · Status: active · Israel/Palestine classification: pro-Israel
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Sponsor: Goldman, Craig A. (R-Texas)
This bill expands the mandate of the State Department's Special Presidential Envoy for the Abraham Accords to actively pursue normalization agreements between Israel and countries in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and beyond. It adds Central Asia and the Caucasus to the envoy's geographic scope, allows appointment of a Deputy Special Envoy, and requires coordination with Defense, Commerce, and Energy departments — but does not authorize any new federal funding.
This institutionalizes U.S. diplomatic efforts to expand the Abraham Accords framework (Israel-Arab normalization agreements) into new regions. While framed as advancing U.S. national security interests, it signals sustained congressional commitment to broadening Israel's diplomatic integration in the Middle East and Central Asia without conditioning such efforts on Palestinian statehood or human rights benchmarks.