Kremlin says Putin has been invited to join Trump’s Gaza 'board of peace'

The Kremlin announced that Vladimir Putin has been invited to join Donald Trump’s newly formed “board of peace”, which was set up with the intention of overseeing a ceasefire in Gaza. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told journalists that Russia was seeking to “clarify all the nuances” of the offer with Washington before responding.

The invitation has not been confirmed by the US. The board, announced last week, was presented as a body to oversee a transition to lasting peace in Gaza and to supervise a handpicked committee of Palestinian technocrats; the scheme was endorsed in a UN security council resolution in November.

Trump named himself chair and announced a founding executive board including Tony Blair, US secretary of state Marco Rubio, Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff and World Bank president Ajay Banga, and reportedly sent invitations to leaders in countries including Argentina, Paraguay, Turkey, Egypt, Canada and Thailand.

The plan has prompted mixed reactions: France said it would decline membership because the project “extends beyond the situation in Gaza” and reiterated its attachment to the UN charter, a Canadian official said Canada would not pay to join, and two countries — Hungary and Vietnam (via the Vietnamese party general secretary, Tô Lâm) — had confirmed acceptance.

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Politics, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Gaza, Kremlin, Un Security Council