{"id":706534,"date":"2026-01-19T14:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T14:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/706534\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T14:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T14:37:10","slug":"trump-invites-putin-to-join-gaza-peace-board-kremlin-says-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/706534\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump invites Putin to join Gaza peace board, Kremlin says \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefings-statements\/2026\/01\/statement-on-president-trumps-comprehensive-plan-to-end-the-gaza-conflict\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefings-statements\/2026\/01\/statement-on-president-trumps-comprehensive-plan-to-end-the-gaza-conflict\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the establishment of the board<\/a> \u2014 which he touted as <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115901692370933354\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115901692370933354\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cthe Greatest and Most Prestigious Board ever assembled at any time, any place\u201d<\/a> \u2014 on Friday as a key part of his 20-point plan to end the war between Israel and Hamas. The committee, chaired by Trump, will oversee the transitional governance of Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. embassy in Brussels did not immediately respond to questions about the invitation.  <\/p>\n<p>Putin, for his part, has spent the last four years waging a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which has killed thousands of civilians, and demolished towns and cities. <\/p>\n<p>Invitations to join the board were also addressed to countries including Argentina, Egypt, Albania, India and Turkey, among others. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has also received an invitation, as have Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer.<\/p>\n<p>Those who want a permanent membership beyond the three-year term will have to cough up $1 billion, Bloomberg first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-01-17\/trump-wants-nations-to-pay-1-billion-to-stay-on-his-peace-board\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-01-17\/trump-wants-nations-to-pay-1-billion-to-stay-on-his-peace-board\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. Canada will join but won\u2019t pay for the permanent seat, Carney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/01\/18\/carney-doha-trump-gaza-00735609\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/01\/18\/carney-doha-trump-gaza-00735609\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>So far, the leaders of Hungary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/kazakhstan-says-trump-invited-tokayev-join-gaza-board-peace-tengri-news-outlet-2026-01-19\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/kazakhstan-says-trump-invited-tokayev-join-gaza-board-peace-tengri-news-outlet-2026-01-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kazakhstan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/vietnamnews.vn\/politics-laws\/1763979\/viet-nam-accepts-invitation-to-join-gaza-board-of-peace.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/vietnamnews.vn\/politics-laws\/1763979\/viet-nam-accepts-invitation-to-join-gaza-board-of-peace.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vietnam<\/a> have accepted the invitation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHungary\u2019s efforts for peace are being recognised. President Trump has invited Hungary to join the work of The Board of Peace as a founding member. We have, of course, accepted this honourable invitation,\u201d Hungarian Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PM_ViktorOrban\/status\/2012853496568053801\" target=\"_blank\">Viktor Orb\u00e1n said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The executive committee of the board will include, among others, f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/tony-blair-gaza-governance-palestine-israel-hamas-peace\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/tony-blair-gaza-governance-palestine-israel-hamas-peace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ormer British Prime Minister Tony Blair<\/a>, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner and Ajay Banga, the head of the World Bank.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump announced the establishment of the board \u2014 which he touted as \u201cthe Greatest and Most Prestigious Board&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2194,2190,7163,129858,13561,660,2820,2129,12,332,27005,1771,49,2150,1781,333,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-706534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-gaza","9":"tag-hungary","10":"tag-israeli-palestinian-conflict","11":"tag-jared-kushner","12":"tag-kazakhstan","13":"tag-kremlin","14":"tag-marco-rubio","15":"tag-mark-carney","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-russia","18":"tag-tony-blair","19":"tag-u-s-foreign-policy","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-vietnam","22":"tag-viktor-orban","23":"tag-vladimir-putin","24":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115922275125686967","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706534","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=706534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}