U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday (January 22, 2026) inaugurated his Board of Peace to guide efforts at sustaining a ceasefirre in Israel’s conflict with Hamas, insisting that “everybody needs to be aside” of the physique that would finally rival the United Nations — regardless of many U.S. allies opting to not take part.
India was among the many nations not current on the ceremony. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was amongst quite a few international leaders invited by Mr. Trump to affix the board.
India is but to take a name on it, individuals acquainted with the matter stated when requested concerning the invite. Pakistan, Turkiye, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, had been among the many nations which have accepted Mr. Trump’s invitation.
Whereas Mr. Trump stated 59 nations have signed onto the board, representatives of solely 19 nations and the U.S. had been current on the occasion because the World Financial Discussion board in Davos, Switzerland.
“You’re essentially the most highly effective individuals on the planet.” Mr. Trump informed the group, starting from Azerbaijan to Paraguay to Hungary.
“This isn’t the US, that is for the world,” Mr. Trump stated, including, “I believe we will unfold it out to different issues as we reach Gaza.”
The occasion additionally noticed Ali Shaath, former Palestinian Authority official from Gaza who’s overseeing the Palestinian committee set to control the territory underneath U.S. supervision, saying that the Rafah border crossing, between Gaza and Egypt, will open in each instructions subsequent week.
The U.S. President’s try to create momentum for a mission to map out a way forward for the war-torn Gaza Strip has been overshadowed this week, first by his threats to grab Greenland, then by a dramatic retreat from that push.
The nations which have accepted Trump’s invitation to affix the board are Argentina, Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Bulgaria, Egypt, Hungary, Indonesia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Morocco, Mongolia, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam.
France, Norway, Slovenia, Sweden and the UK are amongst these which is not going to be part of the board, at the least for now.
The nations which have been invited however remained non-committal are: Cambodia, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Paraguay, Russia, Singapore, Thailand, and Ukraine.
Mr. Trump has spoken concerning the board changing some UN features and even perhaps making that complete physique out of date someday.
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However he was extra conciliatory in his remarks on the sidelines of the discussion board within the Swiss alps. “We’ll do it together with the United Nations,” Mr. Trump stated, at the same time as he denigrated the UN for doing what he stated wasn’t sufficient to calm some conflicts across the globe.
Initially, the brand new physique was to be tasked to supervise governance and coordinate funding for Gaza’s redevelopment because the strip was devastated through the two years of Israeli navy offensive.
Nonetheless, the “constitution” of the board says it’s “a global organisation that seeks to advertise stability, restore reliable and lawful governance, and safe enduring peace in areas affected or threatened by battle”. It says sturdy peace requires pragmatic judgment, frequent sense options, and the braveness to depart from approaches and establishments which have too typically failed.
The highest stage of the board will consist “solely” of heads of state underneath Mr. Trump’s management.
With inputs from PTI, AP
Revealed – January 22, 2026 10:16 pm IST
