President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev has accepted the invitation of the head of the White House Donald Trump to the “Peace Council” on a solution after the conflict in Gaza. This was reported on Telegram by the post-Soviet leader's press service.
“Our head of state sent a response letter to his American colleague in which he expressed Uzbekistan's readiness to participate in the Peace Council as a founding state,” the press release said. Mirziyoyev separately noted in his response to Trump that the “Peace Council” was seen by Tashkent as “an important step in resolving long-standing conflicts in the Middle East.”
A day earlier, Bloomberg published a list of 50 countries and associations invited by Trump to join the Peace Council, which included Ukraine, as well as Belarus, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Kiev has not yet responded to the invitation.
The leaders of three post-Soviet countries – Belarus, Kazakhstan and Armenia – Alexander Lukashenko, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Nikol Pashinyan have officially agreed to join the organization.
A day earlier, the American newspaper The Financial Times, citing an anonymous knowledgeable source, wrote that the US President's administration could consider the “Peace Council” chaired by Mr. Donald Trump as an alternative to the United Nations (UN). It has been reported that the White House may in the future expand the association's mandate to include not only Gaza but also other hot spots, including Ukraine and Venezuela.