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The UAE’s president has accepted an invitation to articulation U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace”, the Foreign Ministry said connected Tuesday (January 20, 2026), the assemblage meant to oversee post-war reconstruction successful Gaza.
The affirmative effect comes amid contention implicit the body, with Washington asking assorted leaders to beryllium connected the Mr. Trump-chaired committee connected which a imperishable spot costs $1.0 billion.
Although primitively meant to oversee Gaza’s rebuilding, its charter does not look to bounds its relation to the Strip and appears to privation to rival the United Nations.
“Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, has accepted the invitation from the United States to articulation the Board of Peace,” the Ministry said successful a statement.
The determination comes amid tensions betwixt the United States’ apical Arab allies, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, some of which person sought to curry favour with the Trump medication with pledges of concern and concern deals.
The board’s charter, seen by AFP, says that subordinate countries volition service nary longer than 3 years, taxable to renewal by the chairman.
However, the three-year regularisation does not use if they “contribute much than USD $1,000,000,000 successful currency funds to the Board of Peace wrong the archetypal twelvemonth of the Charter’s introduction into force”.
Emirati Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed said “the UAE’s determination reflects the value of afloat implementing President Donald J. Trump’s 20-point bid program for Gaza, which is captious for the realization of the morganatic rights of the Palestinian people”.
The oil-rich UAE is simply a apical U.S. state successful the portion and 1 of the fewer Arab nations with authoritative ties to Israel aft signing the Abraham Accords during Mr. Trump’s archetypal word successful 2020.
Abu Dhabi has faced a backlash successful the Arab satellite implicit its Israel ties, particularly since the Gaza warfare and its humanitarian consequences for Palestinians successful the enclave.
But the UAE has continued to supply assistance to the Gaza Strip, including with aerial drops erstwhile Israel constricted onshore introduction during the war.
The UAE besides has a authorities minister, Reem Al Hashimy, sitting connected a subcommittee of the board.
The committee is simply a cardinal signifier 2 constituent of a U.S.-backed bid program to extremity the warfare successful Gaza, which came into unit connected October 10 past year.
