The Kremlin has received an invitation from the White House to be part of the team that will oversee the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip. “The United States has invited Vladimir Putin to join the ‘Peace Board,’” the Russian president’s spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, announced this Monday. Moscow, however, has not made a decision yet.
The US president will head the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG). Donald Trump has also chosen two key people in contacts with the Russian president to his board: his special envoy for everything, Steve Witkoff, and his own son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
“We are studying all the details of the proposal. We hope to contact the American side to clarify all the nuances,” Peskov said in his daily press conference.
Washington announced the constitution of the “Peace Board” last Friday. Trump’s appointments coincide with an agreement in October between the Palestinian militia Hamas and the Government of Israel.
Trump’s roadmap provides for a complete cessation of hostilities with the disarmament of Hamas and the withdrawal of Israeli troops. According to a draft of the statute of this committee to which the Bloomberg agency has had access, the board will be an “international organization that will seek to reestablish solid and legitimate governance” in the area.
However, this supposed international organization will be totally subject to the designs of Trump, who will be able to invite and expel board members unless the majority of its members vote against. In addition, the member countries of the committee will have a time limit of three years unless they contribute $1 billion to the platform.
Ukraine as a priority
On the other hand, the Kremlin spokesman has avoided commenting on other issues that concern the Kremlin and could cloud his relationship with Trump, such as the future of his ally Venezuela and Washington’s plans for Greenland, where the White House wants to deploy part of its new anti-missile shield, the brand new Golden Dome.
“Questions aside about its legality or whether the annexation of Greenland is positive or negative, it is difficult to disagree with the opinion that Trump will thus enter world history,” the spokesman for a president who set a precedent with the illegal annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea in 2014 has limited himself to stating.
The Kremlin’s priority is that . Everything else, including the future of its allies, has taken a backseat. “Putin has no plans to speak with Delcy Rodríguez now, but a meeting could be arranged quickly,” Peskov declared three days after the new Venezuelan president met with CIA director John Ratcliffe.
