Germany is hoping for a seat on the so-called Board of Peace for Gaza, Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said on Friday after US President Donald Trump announced the body’s formation to oversee the transitional administration of the coastal strip.
Germany is prepared to assume responsibility in this “important institution,” Wadephul said after talks in Berlin with his Austrian counterpart Beate Meinl-Reisinger.
“We expect concrete talks to take place very soon and perhaps also an invitation,” he said.
Wadephul also expressed hopes that the second phase of the Gaza peace process initiated under US mediation will now begin: “The establishment of this Board of Peace is necessary for this.”
Trump posted on his Truth Social platform on Thursday that the “Board of Peace” had been formed.
The names of the members would be announced soon, said the president, who will chair what he billed as “the Greatest and Most Prestigious Board ever assembled at any time, any place.”
The board will oversee the work of the so-called National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, a group of 14 Palestinians – said to have no ties to Hamas – which met for the first time in Cairo earlier on Thursday.
They are to oversee daily life and basic services in the Gaza Strip, which has been largely destroyed in more than two years of war.