{"id":379163,"date":"2026-01-19T22:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/379163\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T22:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:36:08","slug":"france-rejects-trump-gaza-peace-board-invite-over-fears-it-wants-to-supplant-un-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/379163\/","title":{"rendered":"France rejects Trump Gaza peace board invite over fears it wants to supplant UN \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\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the establishment of the board<\/a> \u2014 which he touted as <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115901692370933354\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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.<\/p>\n<p>The French Foreign Minister Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot specifically noted on Monday the remit of the board\u2019s charter \u201cin Gaza and elsewhere\u201d and the \u201cvery extensive powers\u201d granted to the chairman as point of concerns. According to Barrot, Trump, as the board\u2019s chairman, would be able to approve the participation of members, choose his own successor and veto decisions taken by a majority of members. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is very, very far from the Charter of the United Nations,\u201d he said during a speech to French academics in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s \u201cBoard of Peace\u201d is facing a separate controversy developing over the a $1 billion fee member countries are expected to pay if they want to remain as permanent members beyond three years.<\/p>\n<p>Canada will join but won\u2019t pay for the permanent seat, Prime Minister Mark Carney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/01\/18\/carney-doha-trump-gaza-00735609\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has also extended invitations to join the board to Germany and the United Kingdom, as well as Albania, Argentina, Egypt, Hungary, India, Turkey and Vietnam. Despite Russia\u2019s ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine, the Russian President Vladimir Putin has also received an invitation, the Kremlin said on Monday.<\/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":379164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17414,14632,626,141,20069,418,819,6231,49,1348,308,9084,61142,48790,148,16420,50,18638,51,47,52,48,1644,158,5673,159,636],"class_list":["post-379163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-albania","tag-argentina","tag-canada","tag-donald-trump","tag-egypt","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-france","tag-governance","tag-headlines","tag-hungary","tag-india","tag-israel","tag-jared-kushner","tag-jean-noel-barrot","tag-kremlin","tag-marco-rubio","tag-news","tag-tony-blair","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-turkey","tag-united-states","tag-vietnam","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}