Trump unveils ‘Board of Peace’ during signing ceremony in Davos

President Trump unveiled his Board of Peace charter that created “peace in the Middle East” and vowed to end more wars during a ceremony in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday.

Trump was the first to sign the charter alongside the Minister of the Prime Minister’s Court of the Kingdom of Bahrain, Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, and Morocco’s Foreign Affairs Minister Nasser Bourita after he described the ceremony as a “very exciting day.”

“We have Peace in the Middle East, no one thought that was possible,” Trump said. “We settled eight wars and another is coming as well, you know what that is,” Trump said, teasing the ceasefire in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.

“Today the world is a safer, richer and much more peaceful place than it was one year ago.”

Trump, who will chair the board, was joined by dozens of world leaders from 19 other countries, including Argentina, Bahrain, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Hungary, Indonesia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Pakistan, Paraguay, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Morocco, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan and Mongolia.

“Now we have one of the most important meetings of what is known as the board of peace.”

Trump said that the Board of Peace will work in conjunction with the United Nations.

“Last September, we released a plan for the permanent end to the conflict in Gaza and I’m pleased to say that our vision was unanimously adopted by the United Nations Security Counsel late last year,” Trump said.

The Trump-chaired Board of Peace originally was conceptualized in September as part of the president’s 20-point Gaza peace plan, which special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner put forward to end the two-year Israel-Hamas conflict.

“If Hamas doesn’t do what they say they will do, they were born with rifles in their hands. But they have to give up their weapons. If they don’t do that, it’s totally the end of them,” Trump said.

A resolution blessing the board’s role in supervising a transitional Palestinian government and an international peacekeeping force was ratified by the United Nations in November.

“We are committed that Hamas must return that last remaining diseased hostage and that will be the full committment and we’ll get on to bigger things,” Trump teased. “We’re committed to ensuring Gaza is demilitarized, properly governed and beautifully rebuilt.”

“We’re gonna be very successful in Gaza. Once this board is completely formed, we can do pretty much whatever we want to do and we’ll do it in conjunction with the United Nations.”

“There’s tremendous potential with the United Nations and I think the combination of the Board of Peace with the kind of people we have here, coupled with the United Nations, can be something very unique for the world.”

Trump teased plans for the board that will look beyond the original Gaza Strip plan.

“Together we are in a position to have an incredible chance to end decades of suffering, stop generations of hatred and bloodshed and forge a beautiful and everlasting glorious peace for that region and the world,” he said. “We’re gonna have peace in the world.”

As invites went out to countries this month, Trump has floated the idea of the Board of Peace greatly expanding its original mission and supplanting the UN as the arbiter of world conflicts.

“It’s going to get a lot of work done that the United Nations should have done,” Trump told reporters Wednesday in Davos, Switzerland.

Despite its name, warmongering Russian President Vladimir Putin is among those to accept an invite to the board, which Trump explained as an asset rather than a liability.

“Yeah, I have some controversial people on it, but these are people that get the job done. These are people that have tremendous influence. If I put all babies on the board, it wouldn’t be very much,” he said.

The United Kingdom announced it would not be joining the board right away because of concerns with Putin joining, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper told the BBC.

“We won’t be one of the signatories today because this is a legal treaty that raises much broader issues,” she said.

“And we do also have concerns about President Putin being part of something that’s talking about peace when we’ve still not seen any signs from Putin that there will be commitment to peace in Ukraine.”