Starmer Fails to Endorse Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza as Putin Invited to Join
Sir Keir Starmer today failed to endorse Donald Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza amid concerns about the $1 billion cost of membership and as it emerged that Vladimir Putin has been invited to join it. The Mail has more.
The Prime Minister told a press conference in Downing Street he was “talking to allies” about the terms of signing up to the US President’s initiative.
But – in what Mr Trump might view as a public snub of his plans – Sir Keir declined to give a fulsome commitment that Britain would join.
According to a draft charter for the proposed group, the US President will serve as its inaugural charman and will decide on who is invited to be members.
Each member will serve no more than three years, subject to renewal by Trump, and each three-year membership term will cost $1 billion, the document added.
British ministers are said to be concerned about where the money will go and the legal framework in which the group may operate.
There are also worries that the US President is trying to build a rival to the United Nations, of which he has long been critical.
There is likely to be further alarm at Trump’s plans after the Kremlin revealed that Russian President Vladimir Putin has received an invitation to join the Board of Peace.
Invitations have reportedly gone out not just to Starmer and Putin but to the Thai Government and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, among others. The Mail again.
US President Donald Trump has asked Russian leader Vladimir Putin to join his new Board of Peace, which is intended to supervise the next phase of the Gaza peace plan.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin had received the invitation and the Kremlin is “studying the details” and will seek clarity of “all the nuances” in contacts with the US.
The Thai Foreign Ministry also said it had been invited and it was reviewing the details.
European Commission spokesperson Olof Gill confirmed that Ursula von der Leyen, President of the Commission, had received an invitation and would be speaking to other EU leaders about Gaza.
Gill did not say whether the invitation had been accepted, but that the commission wants “to contribute to a comprehensive plan to end the Gaza conflict”.
It is unclear how many leaders have been invited to join the board, but a reference in the invitation letters that the body would “embark on a bold new approach to resolving global conflict” suggested it could act as a rival to the UN Security Council, the most powerful body of the global organisation created after the Second World War.
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It will be very interesting to hear what Trump has to say in his special address to the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos on Wednesday. I think the Globalists and the United Nations might be in for an uncomfotable 3/4 hour and that his speech could be the precursor to a big shake-up. We’ll see.
GB News is already predicting that the USA will leave the WHO. One can only look on in envy.
I think they already left
Withdrawing The United States From The World Health Organization – The White House
Section 4 – just like that! Well done Mr President!
I like these bits too
(d) The Secretary of State and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall take appropriate measures, with all practicable speed, to:
(i) pause the future transfer of any United States Government funds, support, or resources to the WHO;
(ii) recall and reassign United States Government personnel or contractors working in any capacity with the WHO; and
(iii) identify credible and transparent United States and international partners to assume necessary activities previously undertaken by the WHO.
(e) The Director of the White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy shall review, rescind, and replace the 2024 U.S. Global Health Security Strategy as soon as practicable.
Sec. 3. Notification. The Secretary of State shall immediately inform the Secretary-General of the United Nations, any other applicable depositary, and the leadership of the WHO of the withdrawal.
Will blair be paying his own membership fees or are we paying over again for his gross vanity?
Can’t wait for Wednesday’s speech, watching the body language in the audience would be fun. The idea of asking all those leaders to stump up and sort out Gaza is brilliant. Trump’s spanner in Starmer’s Chagos deal is a masterstroke.
Too many chiefs and not enough indigenous people? I guess the $1 billion cost for each chief might do some good…
Putin? He supported both the government in Yemen and the rebels fighting against the government. The Houthis have acquired their weapons from Russia, Iran and China and then attacked international shipping in international waters.
No-one has clean hands.
Well, I sure didn’t do anything like that
Like him or loathe him, he’s certainly shaking things up by not playing to the usual global diplomatic rule book isn’t he. I think his approach to Greenland was a step to far – would have been better to get Denmark on side / pay them off massively in private then announce a done deal – perhaps they tried and got told to sod off?
In the 19th century when we had a mighty empire (way before our time) we had a Foreign Secretary named Lord Palmerston who created the phrase ” Gunboat Diplomacy “. When we had issues with other countries, he’d anchor battleships off their coast, to remind them who was who. Now the USA are the leading super power, Trump is doing the same and HE is the baddie?🤔. The old phrase “there’s nothing new under the sun” springs to mind The hypocrisy of Starmer knows no bounds. Greenland should have a democratic vote but not the Chagossians whose homeland we’re giving away.
We’re not giving it away ….. we’ll be paying £billions for others to take them off our hands.