Trump Revokes Canada’s Invitation To Join ‘Board Of Peace’ | EUROtoday

WASHINGTON/OTTAWA, Jan 22 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump withdrew on Thursday an invite for Canada to hitch his “Board of Peace” initiative aimed toward resolving world conflicts.

Trump’s about-face follows Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech on the World Economic Forum in Davos, the place he brazenly decried highly effective nations utilizing financial integration as weapons and tariffs as leverage.

“Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada’s joining, what will be, the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled, at any time,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social publish directed at Carney.

Neither Carney’s workplace nor the White House instantly responded to Reuters requests for touch upon Thursday night.

Last week, Carney’s workplace mentioned he had been invited to serve on the board and deliberate to simply accept.

Carney obtained a uncommon standing ovation in Davos after the speech, wherein he urged nations to simply accept the top of a rules-based world order.

Canada, which lately signed a commerce cope with China, can present how “middle powers” would possibly act collectively to keep away from being victimized by American hegemony, he added.

Trump retorted that Canada “lives because of the United States,” and advised listeners in Davos that Carney ought to be thankful for the United States’ earlier largesse.

“Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements,” he added, addressing Carney instantly. The withdrawal of Canada’s invitation got here hours after Trump formally launched the board, which was initially meant to cement a Gaza ceasefire.

Permanent members should assist fund the board with a cost of $1 billion every, in response to Trump.

“Once this board is completely formed, we can do pretty much whatever we want to do,” Trump mentioned in Switzerland on Thursday. “And we’ll do it together with the United Nations.

The board’s institution was endorsed by a United Nations Security Council decision as a part of Trump’s Gaza peace plan, and U.N. spokesperson Rolando Gomez mentioned on Thursday that U.N. engagement with the board would solely be in that context.

Member nations embrace Argentina, Bahrain, Morocco, Pakistan and Turkey. Other U.S. allies, equivalent to Britain, France and Italy, have indicated they won’t be part of for now.

(Reporting by Jasper Ward in Washington and Ismail Shakil in Ottawa; Additional reporting by Kanishka Singh; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman, Sergio Non and Clarence Fernandez)