{"id":293266,"date":"2026-01-20T03:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/293266\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T03:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:04:15","slug":"putin-invited-to-join-trumps-gaza-board-of-peace-says-kremlin-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/293266\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin invited to join Trump\u2019s Gaza \u2018board of peace\u2019, says Kremlin \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kremlin<\/a> has announced that Vladimir Putin<\/a> has been invited to join Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s \u201cboard of peace\u201d, set up last week with the intention that it would oversee a ceasefire in Gaza<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, told journalists on Monday that Russia was seeking to \u201cclarify all the nuances\u201d of the offer with Washington, before giving its response.<\/p>\n

The claimed invitation comes as Mr Putin shows no signs of ending his invasion of Ukraine, in which hundreds of thousands have been killed and Russian troops have carried out multiple atrocities against civilians. The Russian president has repeatedly rejected proposals of ceasefire along the current frontines.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin also said on Monday that Mr Putin\u2019s special envoy Kirill Dmitriev would be attending the World Economic Forum in Davos this week and would meet members of the US delegation there. It is unclear whether those meetings will involve discussions of the Gaza board.<\/p>\n

The invitation to Mr Putin, which has yet to be confirmed by Washington, raises more questions about the intended agenda for the board. It was originally part of Mr Trump\u2019s ceasefire proposals for the Gaza war, and was supposed to oversee the transition to a lasting peace in the territory and supervise the work of a committee of Palestinian experts, also announced last week, who would take care of the day-to-day running of Gaza. The vaguely described scheme was endorsed in a UN security council resolution in November.<\/p>\n

The first appointments to the board, announced on Friday, included Mr Trump himself as chair, the former British prime minister Tony Blair, the current US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, Mr Trump\u2019s troubleshooting envoy, property developer, Steve Witkoff, the president\u2019s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and the president of the World Bank, Ajay Banga.<\/p>\n

It has emerged over the weekend that Mr Trump had also sent invitations to the leaders of Argentina, Paraguay, Turkey, Egypt and the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms, and most likely others. The invitation letters included a \u201ccharter\u201d saying the board would seek to \u201csolidify Peace in the Middle East\u201d, and at the same time \u201cembark on a bold new approach to resolving Global Conflict\u201d. According to US reports over the weekend, each country would have pay $1 billion for its membership.<\/p>\n

The inclusion of Mr Putin in a global body supposed to oversee peace around the world would add considerable weight to long-standing suspicions that Mr Trump leans heavily in Mr Putin\u2019s favour in his approach to the Ukraine conflict.<\/p>\n

At the same time as he was apparently inviting friendly leaders to join the board of peace, Mr Trump also sent a letter to Norway\u2019s prime minister, Jonas Gahr St\u00f8re, over the weekend, telling him that \u201cconsidering your country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump has been escalating pressure on Denmark and the rest of Europe to accept his plans to take over Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, and has imposed punitive measures on European countries who have objected most strenuously to his plan.<\/p>\n

The UK is one of those targeted, and the prime minister, Keir Starmer, denounced the tariffs as \u201ccompletely wrong\u201d on Monday, restating that \u201cany decision on Greenland belongs to people of Greenland and Denmark alone\u201d. <\/p>\n

However, Mr Starmer did not commit to the imposition of retaliatory tariffs on the US, and downplayed the prospect of Mr Trump\u2019s actual use of force in Greenland.<\/p>\n

Mr Peskov, the Kremlin spokesperson, meanwhile suggested that a US takeover of Greenland would cement Mr Trump\u2019s place in the history books.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere, perhaps, it is possible to abstract from whether this is good or bad, whether it will comply with the parameters of international law or not,\u201dMr Peskov said, but he added it would \u201ccertainly go down in history.\u201d \u2013 Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kremlin has announced that Vladimir Putin has been invited to join Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cboard of peace\u201d, set…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,356,13,14,6,3857,11,12,15,16,5,550,7,8,107,2263,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-293266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-israel-hamas-conflict","15":"tag-latest-news","16":"tag-latestnews","17":"tag-main-news","18":"tag-mainnews","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-russia","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-vladimir-putin","25":"tag-world","26":"tag-world-news","27":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115925212432904487","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}