Asked whether Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, Sir Keir said the agreement “would not have happened without President Trump’s leadership”.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a press conference on a visit to Mumbai, he added: “I want to be really clear about that and I say that from the informed position of the UK having played a part behind the scenes in this with the US and with the mediators.”<\/p>\n
The UK now “stands ready to play our part in implementing this, again with others, as we go forward,” he said.<\/p>\n
When asked about ex-Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair potentially joining the “Board of Peace”, scheduled to take over the running of Gaza from Hamas under the deal, Sir Keir said he was not interested in “discussions of personnel”.<\/p>\n
“What matters now is to press on and implement this,” he told reporters.<\/p>\n
In a statement earlier, Sir Keir welcomed news of the deal as “a moment of profound relief that will be felt all around the world”.<\/p>\n
“I am grateful for the tireless diplomatic efforts of Egypt, Qatar, Turkiye and the United States, supported by our regional partners, in securing this crucial first step. This agreement must now be implemented in full, without delay, and accompanied by the immediate lifting of all restrictions on life-saving humanitarian aid to Gaza,” he said. <\/p>\n
“We call on all parties to meet the commitments they have made, to end the war, and to build the foundations for a just and lasting end to the conflict and a sustainable path to a long-term peace.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Asked whether Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, Sir Keir said the agreement “would not have happened without…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-486521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115346056520646387","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}