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U.S. President Donald Trump connected Thursday (January 22, 2026) inaugurated his Board of Peace to pb efforts astatine maintaining a ceasefirre successful Israel’s warfare with Hamas, insisting that “everyone wants to beryllium apart” of the assemblage that could yet rival the United Nations — contempt galore U.S. allies opting not to participate.
India was among the countries not contiguous astatine the ceremony. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among galore planetary leaders invited by Mr. Trump to articulation the board.
India is yet to instrumentality a telephone connected it, radical acquainted with the substance said erstwhile asked astir the invite. Pakistan, Turkiye, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, were among the countries that person accepted Mr. Trump’s invitation.
While Mr. Trump said 59 countries person signed onto the board, representatives of lone 19 countries and the U.S. were contiguous astatine the lawsuit arsenic the World Economic Forum successful Davos, Switzerland.
“You’re the astir almighty radical successful the world.” Mr. Trump told the group, ranging from Azerbaijan to Paraguay to Hungary.
“This is not the United States, this is for the world,” Mr. Trump said, adding, “I deliberation we tin dispersed it retired to different things arsenic we win successful Gaza.”
The lawsuit besides saw Ali Shaath, erstwhile Palestinian Authority authoritative from Gaza who is overseeing the Palestinian committee acceptable to govern the territory nether U.S. supervision, announcing that the Rafah borderline crossing, betwixt Gaza and Egypt, volition unfastened successful some directions adjacent week.
The U.S. President’s effort to make momentum for a task to representation retired a aboriginal of the war-torn Gaza Strip has been overshadowed this week, archetypal by his threats to prehend Greenland, past by a melodramatic retreat from that push.
The countries that person accepted Trump's invitation to articulation the committee are Argentina, Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Bulgaria, Egypt, Hungary, Indonesia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Morocco, Mongolia, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam.
France, Norway, Slovenia, Sweden and the United Kingdom are among those which volition not articulation the board, astatine slightest for now.
The countries which person been invited but remained non-committal are: Cambodia, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Paraguay, Russia, Singapore, Thailand, and Ukraine.
Mr. Trump has spoken astir the committee replacing immoderate UN functions and possibly adjacent making that full assemblage obsolete 1 day.
Trump Board of Peace: List of members invited and countries that rejected the proposal
But helium was much conciliatory successful his remarks connected the sidelines of the forum successful the Swiss alps. “We’ll bash it successful conjunction with the United Nations,” Mr. Trump said, adjacent arsenic helium denigrated the UN for doing what helium said wasn’t capable to calm immoderate conflicts astir the globe.
Originally, the caller assemblage was to beryllium tasked to oversee governance and coordinate backing for Gaza's redevelopment arsenic the portion was devastated during the 2 years of Israeli subject offensive.
However, the "charter" of the committee says it is "an planetary organisation that seeks to beforehand stability, reconstruct dependable and lawful governance, and unafraid enduring bid successful areas affected oregon threatened by conflict". It says durable bid requires pragmatic judgment, communal consciousness solutions, and the courageousness to depart from approaches and institutions that person excessively often failed.
The apical level of the committee volition dwell "exclusively" of heads of authorities nether Mr. Trump's leadership.
With inputs from PTI, AP
