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The United States and Saudi Arabia have signed a historic civilian nuclear cooperation agreement, opening the doors for strengthening strategic and economic ties between the two countries.
The announcement of the deal comes from the US Department of Energy on Wednesday. Under this agreement, Saudi Arabia will obtain civilian nuclear technology from the US companies along with bilateral safeguard protocols.
The pact permits the kingdom to construct nuclear reactors with US technology, bypassing the stringent, snap United Nations inspections that Washington previously insisted upon for Iran.
Earlier, it was speculated that this agreement might open the door for the Gulf country to enrich uranium as experts feared the enrichment of uranium would equip Saudi Arabia with the ability to make an atomic bomb, leading to proliferation or arms race in the Middle East.
But in the recent announcement, President Trump not only clarified the clause over uranium enrichment but also set new conditions for the US-Saudi nuclear key condition.
According to President Trump, the agreement does not allow the country to enrich uranium.
“The United States is not opposed to Civil (Non-Enriched) Nuclear Facilities,” Trump said.
On Truth Social post, Trump posted, “The Civil Nuclear Deal (There will be no enrichment of material!)… pertains only to non-military use such as the ones that Iran and UAE (and others) already have will be approved.”
Speaking about the condition, he added, “ the deal is totally subject to Saudi Arabia joining the very respected and successful Abraham Accords.” This Accords refers to normalizing the ties with Israel.
Saudi Arabia has held long-standing position that it would not sign the Abraham Accords unless there is an agreement on a roadmap to Palestinian statehood.
