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[00:00:01] Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the
[00:00:03] Vice President of the United States, J.
[00:00:05] D. Vance, Secretary of State, Marco
[00:00:08] Rubio, Special Envoy, Steve Wickoff, and
[00:00:11] the Executive Board Member Jared
[00:00:13] Kushner.
[00:00:32] Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the
[00:00:34] President of the United States, Donald
[00:00:37] J. Trump.
[00:00:54] Well, thank you very much. This is a big
[00:00:56] day.
[00:00:58] and lots of people watching and uh
[00:01:01] especially from other countries, the
[00:01:03] leaders of as you know the other
[00:01:04] countries because we have a large group
[00:01:08] of leaders and the ones that aren't here
[00:01:11] are watching on Zoom. I hope they enjoy
[00:01:14] it. And the press, we appreciate it very
[00:01:17] much. So respectful. You've been so
[00:01:19] respectful of what we're doing. What
[00:01:21] we're doing is very simple peace. It's
[00:01:24] called the border peace and it's all
[00:01:25] about an easy word to say but a hard
[00:01:28] word to produce peace. But we're going
[00:01:31] to produce it and we've been doing a
[00:01:33] really good job and some of these
[00:01:35] leaders that are with us have helped me
[00:01:38] very much during just this first year.
[00:01:40] We have a first year like probably no
[00:01:42] other ever in our country because we
[00:01:46] settled eight wars and I think a ninth
[00:01:51] to come. It's turned out to be a tougher
[00:01:53] one. and I thought that was going to be
[00:01:54] the easiest one. But with war, you never
[00:01:57] know what's easy and what's not so easy.
[00:02:00] But we've had a great relationship and
[00:02:02] I've become friendly with so many of the
[00:02:04] people and uh I appreciate you being
[00:02:07] here. These are great people. These are
[00:02:08] great leaders and the people that are
[00:02:11] watching
[00:02:12] by closed circuit and open circuit in
[00:02:15] many cases. They're so proud of it. They
[00:02:16] want it to be open. Uh but uh they're
[00:02:19] they become incredible friends of mine
[00:02:22] and uh you know we rebuilt our country
[00:02:25] in my first term and now we're at a
[00:02:29] point that the United States has never
[00:02:31] seen before. We broke 50,000 on the Dow.
[00:02:35] They said that would take four years. We
[00:02:37] broke 7,000 on the S&P. They said you
[00:02:40] couldn't do that within four years. It
[00:02:42] would be impossible.
[00:02:44] And when I came in, they were all
[00:02:45] saying, "If you could get to anywhere
[00:02:47] close to 40 45,000, it would be amazing
[00:02:50] achievement over four years." Well, we
[00:02:52] hit 50,000 in the first year, and we hit
[00:02:56] 7,000, which was actually tougher to do
[00:02:58] according to the Wall Street geniuses.
[00:03:01] We hit 7,000 in the first year. They
[00:03:03] said it could take four or five years.
[00:03:06] They'd be very happy. It would have been
[00:03:07] a great job. We did it in one. But we're
[00:03:09] doing uh we're doing a great job. uh
[00:03:12] border peace is one of the most
[00:03:13] important and consequential things I
[00:03:15] think that I'll be involved in. We've
[00:03:17] been involved in a lot u and uh really
[00:03:22] I've been involved in a lot with the
[00:03:24] people up here. We work together on
[00:03:28] ending wars with their country. Some of
[00:03:31] the wars were 32 years long. 32 34 and a
[00:03:35] 37. That's a long time. And we ended it
[00:03:38] in about two days each one of those. But
[00:03:42] uh we have some other work to do and
[00:03:44] we're getting it done. Gaza is very
[00:03:47] complex. It's been amazing. I want to
[00:03:49] thank Steve and Jared for an amazing
[00:03:52] job. Marco's over there watching.
[00:03:55] Everybody's fantastic. And JD, what a
[00:03:58] job they're all doing. It's a team. I
[00:04:00] think it's the best team ever assembled.
[00:04:03] And you see that by the results. So
[00:04:05] today is a tremendous honor to welcome
[00:04:08] you all to the United States Institute
[00:04:10] of Peace for the inaugural meeting of
[00:04:13] the Board of Peace. Very important. I
[00:04:17] believe it's the most consequential
[00:04:18] board. Certainly in terms of power and
[00:04:21] in terms of prestige, there's never been
[00:04:24] anything close because these are the
[00:04:27] greatest world leaders. Almost
[00:04:29] everybody's accepted and the ones that
[00:04:31] haven't will be. And some are playing a
[00:04:34] little cute. doesn't work. You can't
[00:04:35] play cute with me, but they're playing a
[00:04:38] little bit, but uh they're all they're
[00:04:40] all joining everybody, which most of
[00:04:42] them very immediately.
[00:04:45] Uh a few that we really don't want
[00:04:49] because they're trouble. Take care of
[00:04:51] them. But, uh this is the most
[00:04:54] prestigious board ever put together. You
[00:04:57] I've seen some great corporate boards.
[00:04:59] I've seen some great boards, period.
[00:05:01] It's peanuts compared to this sport
[00:05:04] because we have virtually everyone
[00:05:07] is the head of a country other than
[00:05:09] Johnny, but he's the head of soccer, so
[00:05:10] that's not so bad, right Johnny? I like
[00:05:13] your job the best, I think. And by the
[00:05:15] way, uh, your World Cup has set every
[00:05:19] single ticket record in the history of
[00:05:21] soccer in the history. Nobody's ever
[00:05:23] seen anything like it. The, uh, sales
[00:05:26] are virtually complete. Nobody's ever
[00:05:28] seen anything. So, congratulations. You
[00:05:30] made a good decision.
[00:05:33] >> We did it together. Thank you, Johnny.
[00:05:35] Great guy. So, I want to thank the many
[00:05:37] leaders and dignitaries who had traveled
[00:05:40] great distances and lengths for the
[00:05:43] important gathering that we're at right
[00:05:45] now. The this building was built for
[00:05:49] peace and nobody knew what to name it.
[00:05:51] And then Marco named it after me. I had
[00:05:53] nothing to do with it. I swear I didn't.
[00:05:55] I sw I had no idea. They said there's a
[00:05:58] surprise coming. I I didn't know this
[00:06:00] surprise. I thought they were going to
[00:06:01] give me a lot of money or something.
[00:06:02] Maybe cash. Can always use some extra
[00:06:04] cash. But I came and they stopped the
[00:06:08] beautiful beast. I got out very safely,
[00:06:11] I'm sure. And looked up and there it
[00:06:14] said Donald J. Trump on the building and
[00:06:16] when I say uh that that was had nothing
[00:06:19] to do nobody believes it and that's
[00:06:21] okay. But I appreciated it. That was
[00:06:24] Marco and JD and a group got together
[00:06:26] and they did that and I just thought it
[00:06:27] was very nice.
[00:06:29] And it makes me work harder. We're going
[00:06:30] to have to work harder. We're going to
[00:06:31] have to make this building much more
[00:06:33] important. They built it's brand new.
[00:06:35] They built it for peace, but nobody
[00:06:36] occupied it. You know, nobody knew what
[00:06:39] the purpose of it, but uh the
[00:06:41] architecture is so beautiful, and it's
[00:06:43] it was uh with the meeting rooms, the
[00:06:45] reception rooms. It's it's really
[00:06:47] amazing. Who would think that it was
[00:06:50] built uh without anybody in mind or
[00:06:53] anything in mind? And then the state
[00:06:55] department took it over. They liked it.
[00:06:57] Marco came over one day. He saw this.
[00:06:59] But he said, "This building is great."
[00:07:01] And he actually claimed it, right? He
[00:07:03] claimed it. And that's what he does.
[00:07:06] Where is Marco? Marco? Is that true? You
[00:07:09] claimed this building. You took it away
[00:07:10] from about five groups that wanted it.
[00:07:12] It was that was done very quickly, very
[00:07:15] methodically. But it was really really
[00:07:18] built so beautifully and such a
[00:07:19] beautiful building. But we work together
[00:07:21] to ensure the brighter future for the
[00:07:23] people of Gaza, the Middle East, and the
[00:07:26] entire world. I think that the board of
[00:07:28] peace because it's mostly leaders and
[00:07:31] unbelievably
[00:07:32] uh respected people, but mostly leaders
[00:07:35] of
[00:07:37] Middle Eastern countries, countries from
[00:07:39] all over the world, and they've been
[00:07:41] very generous with money also. And the
[00:07:45] United States, which I'll say in a
[00:07:47] moment, is also very generous with
[00:07:49] money. Uh because there's nothing more
[00:07:51] important than peace and there's m
[00:07:54] nothing less expensive than peace. You
[00:07:56] know when you go to wars it cost you a
[00:07:58] hund times what it costs to make peace.
[00:08:02] We uh have a man at the end right there
[00:08:05] that's smiling because you learned that
[00:08:07] after 30 years of fighting. Right. 30
[00:08:09] years of fighting. We got it done. I
[00:08:11] want to thank you very much. That was
[00:08:14] the great thing you did. You and your
[00:08:16] new friend. They came to my office and
[00:08:19] they said, "I've been fighting for 22
[00:08:21] years. Now you're there for 23 years."
[00:08:23] Right? But I've been fighting for 22
[00:08:25] years. That's all I've done is fight
[00:08:27] this gentleman. And his counterpart was
[00:08:30] there for seven years. He said, "I've
[00:08:32] been there for seven years. All I've
[00:08:33] done is fight this gentleman." And we
[00:08:35] had it worked out in about 24 hours.
[00:08:37] Right. And it's been a good piece. And I
[00:08:39] think they become friends. I'm not sure
[00:08:40] I'm allowed to say that, but I think so.
[00:08:42] I think they become friends. Right.
[00:08:45] Right. Great. Stand up. Stand up.
[00:08:53] These are two tough cookies, too. These
[00:08:56] are You think that was easy? It wasn't
[00:08:58] easy. These are two tough people. Good
[00:09:00] people, but tough people. But, you know,
[00:09:02] we're in the Oval Office, and we were
[00:09:05] getting near, but the one was at one
[00:09:08] side of the room. I have two chairs
[00:09:09] right in front of the desk, the
[00:09:11] beautiful Resolute desk. One's over
[00:09:13] here, one's on the other side of the
[00:09:15] room. I said, "Mo, could you get a
[00:09:17] little closer?" Well, I don't They felt
[00:09:19] very uncomfortable. You know, they've
[00:09:20] been killing each other for 32 years.
[00:09:23] So, I say, "Can you get a little
[00:09:24] closer?" After one hour, they were right
[00:09:27] next to each other. We made a deal. They
[00:09:29] hugged, they signed, and we had peace
[00:09:34] with two very important countries, and
[00:09:36] I'll never forget it. So, they started
[00:09:38] off a little weak, and they ended up
[00:09:40] really strong, and you can be very proud
[00:09:42] of yourselves. It was a beautiful thing
[00:09:44] to see. Thank you.
[00:09:47] >> Look, look at that. Can you believe it?
[00:09:49] 32 years.
[00:09:53] Thank you.
[00:09:55] Thank you very much. Uh, but we're
[00:09:59] honored to be joined today by
[00:10:02] Prime Minister Rama of Albania.
[00:10:07] President, where is President Malay?
[00:10:09] You're another one. I'll tell you. Where
[00:10:11] is President Malay? I had I endorsed
[00:10:15] him. I'm not supposed to be endorsing
[00:10:16] people, but I endorse when I like
[00:10:18] people. You know, I've had a very good
[00:10:20] record of endorsing candidates within
[00:10:24] the United States. But now I endorse
[00:10:26] foreign leaders, including Victor
[00:10:28] Orbond, who's here, and others. And I
[00:10:32] endorse this gentleman, Mille. He was a
[00:10:35] little behind in the polls. He ended up
[00:10:37] winning in a landslide. I just endorsed
[00:10:39] the prime minister of Japan. and she was
[00:10:41] in a tight race but was probably going
[00:10:43] to win and she won in the largest number
[00:10:45] in the history of Japan. So, she likes
[00:10:48] me a lot. But, uh, it was an honor and
[00:10:51] you're doing good. Oh, look. They're
[00:10:52] sitting right next Victor, I think. But
[00:10:55] ultimately, I think I'm gonna end up
[00:10:56] endors Hey, look. As long as it works,
[00:10:58] it's okay with me. But the endorsement
[00:11:00] seems to be working in foreign
[00:11:02] countries, too. So, that's good. But
[00:11:04] nice to have you both. Victor, nice to
[00:11:05] have you both. Very proud of you. The
[00:11:08] prime minister
[00:11:09] of another really just a great guy,
[00:11:14] Passin of Armenia.
[00:11:17] President
[00:11:19] Aliv
[00:11:21] of Azerbaijan. I love saying that name
[00:11:24] now. You know, at the beginning it was
[00:11:25] giving me a hard time. Now I love saying
[00:11:27] it. It's a beautiful name. I love it.
[00:11:30] His Majesty King Hammad bin Essa
[00:11:35] al- Khalifa of Bahrain.
[00:11:38] Bahrain. Thank you. Thank you. Where are
[00:11:41] you? Where are you?
[00:11:44] He's so rich he can sit there. He can
[00:11:46] sit wherever the hell he wants.
[00:11:49] You know, he could sit up in the corner.
[00:11:51] He could sit up top.
[00:11:54] He might take a piece of this building,
[00:11:56] Marco. You'll take 25% of the building
[00:11:59] for about six billion.
[00:12:02] Thank you. And you've been very generous
[00:12:04] also. We appreciate it. Prime Minister
[00:12:07] Hoon Manet of Cambodia. Raise your hand
[00:12:12] wherever you may be because Yeah. Hi.
[00:12:14] How are you? Congratulations.
[00:12:17] That was another one, right? We did a
[00:12:19] good job with that one. Prime Minister
[00:12:23] Mad Bully of Egypt. Thank you very much.
[00:12:28] And say hello to the general president.
[00:12:32] Okay.
[00:12:34] Prime Minister Orban of Hungary, who has
[00:12:37] my complete and total endorsement for
[00:12:39] election. Not everybody in Europe loves
[00:12:43] that endorsement, but that's okay. He
[00:12:45] does an unbelievable job. He's done an
[00:12:47] incredible job on immigration,
[00:12:49] unlike some countries that have uh hurt
[00:12:53] themselves, but they're working on it.
[00:12:55] But I I just want to let you know, you
[00:12:56] have my total and complete endorsement,
[00:12:58] and I'm putting it out. I already did,
[00:13:00] but I'm putting it out again, and you're
[00:13:02] coming up with an election, and I think
[00:13:04] you should be good. I'll tell you, Mille
[00:13:07] did pretty well. He was a little down,
[00:13:08] right? And then he was he ended up
[00:13:10] winning in a landslide. So, that's
[00:13:12] pretty good. You're going to do great,
[00:13:13] Victor. Thank you very much for being
[00:13:15] here. I appreciate it. You run a great
[00:13:17] country. A man that I really like a a
[00:13:21] lot is he's definitely tough. I don't
[00:13:24] want to fight him. President
[00:13:27] Proo of Indonesia. Thank you very much.
[00:13:31] Please. This is a big guy. I tell you, I
[00:13:34] said, "How many people in Indonesia?" He
[00:13:37] said, "Like 240 million." I said, "No,
[00:13:39] no, say it again. How many? It's a big
[00:13:42] country you have. and you do a great job
[00:13:44] and respected by everybody and thank you
[00:13:47] very much for being here. Thank you very
[00:13:49] much, Mr. President.
[00:13:51] President Tokayv of Kazakhstan.
[00:13:56] Thank you very much. What a country that
[00:13:58] is. It's a wonderful country and a rich
[00:14:03] country. In case anybody has any
[00:14:04] question, we have some very rich people
[00:14:06] here today.
[00:14:08] President Omani of Kosovo. President,
[00:14:13] thank you very much. Great great job
[00:14:16] you're doing too. Thank you very much.
[00:14:18] Prime Minister Sharif, I like this man
[00:14:22] of Pakistan because there was some
[00:14:26] fighting going on when I got to know
[00:14:29] him. And your field marshal, general,
[00:14:32] great general, great field marshal, a
[00:14:35] great guy.
[00:14:37] and uh I got to meet the prime minister
[00:14:41] and he said in front of our chief of
[00:14:43] staff Susie Wells who's right here he
[00:14:46] said you know nobody knows this but I
[00:14:49] believe that
[00:14:52] President Trump saved 25 million lives
[00:14:56] when he say when he stopped the war
[00:14:58] between us and India right he you made
[00:15:00] that statement I said 25 million lives
[00:15:02] could have been much more actually but
[00:15:04] it's uh it was really a beautiful thing.
[00:15:07] You said that in front of a a group of
[00:15:08] people that was they walked out. They
[00:15:10] they don't think about it, but you're
[00:15:12] talking about that kind of lives. That
[00:15:14] war was raging. Planes were being shot
[00:15:16] down, right?
[00:15:18] And it was uh Pakistan and India. And I
[00:15:21] got on the phone with both of them and I
[00:15:23] knew him a little bit. I knew
[00:15:26] Prime Minister Modi very well actually.
[00:15:28] But I got to know Pakistan through a
[00:15:31] little trade. They were trying to make
[00:15:33] too good a deal and I got a little upset
[00:15:35] with them and in the end they got what
[00:15:37] they wanted, right? And they made a good
[00:15:40] deal and I got to like them. The prime
[00:15:42] minister and the field marshall who's a
[00:15:45] tough man, a tough good fighter, right?
[00:15:48] Good serious fighter. I like good
[00:15:50] fighters actually. And when I heard that
[00:15:53] they were fighting, I picked up a
[00:15:55] certain newspaper. I won't tell you
[00:15:56] which one because it's fake news
[00:15:58] generally. But I picked up this
[00:16:00] newspaper and I saw that Pakistan and
[00:16:02] India were really going at it. And then
[00:16:05] it got worse and worse and planes were
[00:16:07] new and many planes were shot down. It
[00:16:10] was it was all out and I called them. I
[00:16:13] said, "Listen, I'm not doing trade deals
[00:16:15] with you two guys if you don't settle
[00:16:17] this up." They said, "No, no, no. That
[00:16:19] has both of them. They didn't want to do
[00:16:21] that." I said, "No, it has to. If you
[00:16:23] don't do it, I'm not doing a trade
[00:16:25] deal." we're not doing a trade deal and
[00:16:27] they do a lot of business with the
[00:16:29] United States and they sort of softened
[00:16:32] up all of a sudden then all of a sudden
[00:16:34] I read where there was a little bit of a
[00:16:35] pullback by one then the other and all
[00:16:38] of a sudden we worked out a deal right
[00:16:40] but I said if you fight I'm going to put
[00:16:44] 200% tariffs on each of your countries
[00:16:47] which essentially makes you not allowed
[00:16:49] you know you can't do any business one
[00:16:52] of them I won't say which one said Oh,
[00:16:55] can't do that. They both wanted to
[00:16:58] fight.
[00:16:59] But when it came to money, nothing like
[00:17:02] money. When it came to losing a lot of
[00:17:04] money, they said, "I guess we don't want
[00:17:06] to fight." And we solved that deal in
[00:17:09] two, three days, right? And we did. We
[00:17:11] saved these are two very powerful n
[00:17:13] these are two nuclear nations. And I
[00:17:16] don't want to say what was going to
[00:17:17] happen, but you know, bad things happen.
[00:17:21] So, Prime Minister, I want to thank you
[00:17:22] because that was a big that was a very
[00:17:24] big deal. People have no idea. A lot of
[00:17:26] them say, "Oh, well, they weren't
[00:17:27] fighting. They were fighting. 11 jets
[00:17:30] were shot down. Very expensive jets."
[00:17:33] And they were all in. Both of them were
[00:17:35] all in and now they're not. And uh I
[00:17:38] think we'll always be able to settle up
[00:17:39] with them. I really do. I think you're
[00:17:41] going to have, you know, it's it's a lot
[00:17:43] of progress was made even in the
[00:17:44] relationship. And Prime Minister Modi
[00:17:46] also, he's a great man. He's a great
[00:17:49] guy. They're all great, but I was very
[00:17:52] proud of it. President Penna of Paraguay
[00:17:56] is here. President, President, thank you
[00:17:58] very much. Young, handsome guy. It's
[00:18:02] always nice to be young and handsome.
[00:18:04] Doesn't mean we have to like you. I
[00:18:06] don't like young handsome men.
[00:18:10] Women like men know I don't have any
[00:18:14] interest.
[00:18:16] >> Good. That's right. That's right. Thank
[00:18:18] you very much. You're doing a great job
[00:18:19] too. His ex excellency prime minister
[00:18:23] Althani of Qatar just a great man.
[00:18:27] Please a great man and highly respected
[00:18:31] and he's working with a man who is uh
[00:18:34] amazing. I always say he needs a public
[00:18:38] relations agency because you do so much
[00:18:41] good and they have you down as evil and
[00:18:44] you're not evil. You help us so much and
[00:18:46] you're such a good ally and I just want
[00:18:49] people to know that. And the Amir is
[00:18:52] incredible, smart,
[00:18:55] smart as you can be, a great leader and
[00:18:57] he cares so much for the people and he
[00:18:59] cares so much for the Middle East. So I
[00:19:01] want to thank you very much and send my
[00:19:02] regards to your country has been a great
[00:19:04] help, you know, surprising to some of
[00:19:07] the people writing out there, but now
[00:19:09] they'll start changing their tune
[00:19:10] because it's true. I only tell the
[00:19:11] truth.
[00:19:13] Prime Minister Dawn of Romania.
[00:19:16] Wonderful people. The Romanian people
[00:19:18] are fantastic. Fantastic people like
[00:19:21] you're fantastic.
[00:19:23] And a lot of them come and work in this
[00:19:25] country and help us in this country as
[00:19:26] you know. And it's they they are just
[00:19:28] really really solid people. President
[00:19:34] Miru Ovistan
[00:19:38] who is
[00:19:40] where there he is. and a and a friend of
[00:19:43] mine. You got one of the most difficult
[00:19:45] names in history, but that's okay. It
[00:19:48] doesn't matter. Uh, your country is
[00:19:50] doing great. You're doing great. And uh,
[00:19:53] just no problems. Every time I see him,
[00:19:55] nope, we're doing good. No problems. And
[00:19:58] General Secretary to Lam of Vietnam.
[00:20:02] Vietnam is incredible as a country and
[00:20:05] as a force. And it's an honor to have
[00:20:08] you. Really great honor to have you. A
[00:20:10] lot of respect. a lot of respect for
[00:20:12] your country. We also want to express my
[00:20:15] gratitude to Vice President J. D. Vance
[00:20:17] who is a fantastic man. He's a fantastic
[00:20:21] talent.
[00:20:23] He was a great student. They went to one
[00:20:27] school. He graduated. You know, most
[00:20:29] people, if you watch some of the people
[00:20:30] that were at the event in Munich, uh
[00:20:33] they didn't graduate quickly from
[00:20:35] college. They had everything they could
[00:20:37] do. There was one young, attractive
[00:20:40] woman. and she was unable to answer
[00:20:42] questions
[00:20:43] and uh she didn't do so well like JD did
[00:20:46] in college. JD graduated in a four and a
[00:20:49] half year college in two years and then
[00:20:52] he went to Yale and he graduated at the
[00:20:55] top of his class went to the military
[00:20:57] grade but when he went to Yale there was
[00:20:59] one person that was marginally ahead of
[00:21:02] him so he married her. Can you believe
[00:21:04] it? He married the person that was
[00:21:06] ahead. I don't know. I always like to
[00:21:07] say J D was first and Usha was second
[00:21:11] because I get a little uncomfortable
[00:21:13] when I say the but uh he's been
[00:21:16] incredible. He's a brilliant guy and a
[00:21:18] great guy and he's been my friend. All
[00:21:20] of our people we have a a fantastic
[00:21:23] group of people our cabinet members
[00:21:25] every but many of them here but JD has
[00:21:28] been great. Thank you very much. He gets
[00:21:30] a little bit tough on occasion. We got
[00:21:31] to slow him down just a little bit on
[00:21:32] occasion. He says his mind. Now then we
[00:21:35] have the opposite extreme. We have your
[00:21:37] friend sitting in the back. Your good
[00:21:39] your best friend sitting in the back is
[00:21:42] Marco. Marco does it with a velvet
[00:21:44] glove. But it's a kill, right?
[00:21:49] The the result is the same. They do it
[00:21:51] very differently. And Marco, you really
[00:21:54] did yourself proud two days ago in
[00:21:56] Munich. In fact, so proud that I almost
[00:21:59] terminated his employee
[00:22:02] because they were saying, "Why can't
[00:22:04] Trump do this?" I do, but I say it
[00:22:07] differently. But Marco, uh, don't do any
[00:22:11] better than you did, please, because if
[00:22:14] you do, you're out of here.
[00:22:16] But no, he got it was I want my guys to
[00:22:19] do great. And the acclaim he's gotten
[00:22:21] and the acclaim JD gets is uh is great.
[00:22:24] We have smart people and when you see
[00:22:26] the representatives there like uh Gavin
[00:22:30] Nuskum, he didn't know what he was
[00:22:32] doing. They didn't even know why he
[00:22:33] didn't know why he was there or AOC. She
[00:22:36] was unable to answer a simple question
[00:22:40] and uh she could have said, "Well, I'm
[00:22:42] studying it and I'll report back to you
[00:22:44] next week." You know, you can get away
[00:22:45] with that. But she just went uh
[00:22:49] uh it's actually been I think it could
[00:22:51] be a careerending answer because for 25
[00:22:55] years anybody running against her I
[00:22:57] think Susie is going to use that that
[00:22:59] little piece of stuff. It was not good.
[00:23:02] It was not good. That was not a natural.
[00:23:05] So I want to thank JD. I want to thank
[00:23:07] Secretary of State Marco Rubio. They're
[00:23:09] extraordinary. I want to thank Special
[00:23:13] Envoy for Peace Steve Witkov. who has
[00:23:16] been unbelievable. You know, I took
[00:23:18] Steve because I was a developer in New
[00:23:20] York, really successful, actually much
[00:23:23] more successful than Steve, but I don't
[00:23:24] want to say that. I'm not going to say
[00:23:26] that, Johnny. I'm not I refuse to say
[00:23:28] it. But I I saw something in Steve.
[00:23:31] Steve's a great negotiator. Everybody
[00:23:33] loved him. All these developers, and
[00:23:35] they're tough, you know, New York
[00:23:36] developers tend to be on the tough side.
[00:23:39] And,
[00:23:41] you know, most of them hate each other.
[00:23:42] like a lot of the people in this room
[00:23:44] hate each other, you know, it's sort of
[00:23:45] natural, I guess. But we're bringing
[00:23:47] love back into the room like the old
[00:23:49] days. But everybody loves Steve. Every
[00:23:52] developer, the worst, most evil people,
[00:23:54] horrible human beings, actually, and
[00:23:57] they love Steve. So I remember this and
[00:24:00] we had some conflicts to put it mildly
[00:24:03] in the world. And I said, "Steve, how
[00:24:04] would you like to be Henry Kissinger Jr.
[00:24:07] that doesn't leak?"
[00:24:09] And he said, "Are you a leaker, Steve?"
[00:24:11] No. He didn't even know what the word
[00:24:12] meant. And it's true. I always say Henry
[00:24:15] Kissinger, who was one of the great
[00:24:16] leakers of all time, by the way, Richard
[00:24:18] Nixon said to him, "Henry, Henry, who's
[00:24:21] leaking all this stuff?" I don't know,
[00:24:23] Mr. President. It was Henry. It was
[00:24:25] like,
[00:24:26] these are little stories I like telling
[00:24:28] you. But, uh, Steve has been
[00:24:31] unbelievable. Everybody likes him. Uh,
[00:24:34] Ukraine loves him, Europe loves him,
[00:24:38] Russia loves him. I mean, there's
[00:24:40] nothing wrong with this. He goes to see
[00:24:42] President Putin didn't know Putin. I set
[00:24:44] him up a meeting to see. I said, "How's
[00:24:47] Steve doing?" "Sir, he's still inside."
[00:24:48] "Oh, that was an hour." I called back.
[00:24:52] Tell Steve to call me when he's
[00:24:53] finished. I want to find out what the
[00:24:55] hell is going on. We want to end that
[00:24:56] war. Sir, he's still inside. Three
[00:24:59] hours, four hours. They were together
[00:25:02] for four hours. The first meeting,
[00:25:04] that's talent.
[00:25:06] And they get along. I mean, people like
[00:25:09] or don't like Putin or Zalinski. They
[00:25:13] get along. Same thing with Zilinsky. I
[00:25:14] mean, they they all love Steve. And
[00:25:17] Steve's doing a great job. That's a
[00:25:18] tough one. That's a much tougher one. I
[00:25:21] would have thought that uh some of the
[00:25:22] ones that we settled that are up here
[00:25:25] would have been uh would have been I
[00:25:28] thought this would be easy because I
[00:25:29] have a very good relationship with
[00:25:31] President Putin. I have a very good
[00:25:33] relationship with President Xi. I'm
[00:25:35] going to be going to China in April.
[00:25:36] It's going to be that's going to be a
[00:25:37] wild one. I said, "But we have to put on
[00:25:40] the biggest display you've ever had in
[00:25:42] the history of China." You know, last
[00:25:44] time I went to China, PresidentQi, he
[00:25:47] treated me so well. He gave me a
[00:25:49] display. I never saw so many soldiers
[00:25:51] all the same height, exactly the same
[00:25:53] height, within a quarter of an inch. You
[00:25:56] can do that when you have 1.4 billion
[00:25:57] people. You know, lots of shoulders.
[00:26:00] Everybody was about 1/8 of an inch the
[00:26:03] same height. I said, "If they put their
[00:26:05] helmets down, you could have played pool
[00:26:08] on the top of their heads." And uh it
[00:26:11] was pretty amazing. But I said, "You got
[00:26:13] to top it." He said, "I'll top it. We're
[00:26:16] going to top it. We're going to have a
[00:26:17] lot of the people most of the fake news
[00:26:19] back there is going to be going." So we
[00:26:22] have uh Steve has done a great job. And
[00:26:25] then a little bit later on, we brought
[00:26:28] Jared and Jared was responsible for the
[00:26:30] Abraham Accords, which is incredible.
[00:26:32] Nobody else could have done that. a very
[00:26:34] smart guy and uh we're making Jaredan
[00:26:38] envoy also envoy of peace. They're both
[00:26:40] envoys of peace and you couldn't get too
[00:26:43] I tell you what, I watch these two guys.
[00:26:45] I say at least we're covered from an IQ
[00:26:48] standpoint. These two guys walk into a
[00:26:49] room and uh but people like them both,
[00:26:52] you know, they're good people and they
[00:26:54] like them both and they've had some very
[00:26:56] good meetings. They've had some very
[00:26:58] interesting meetings having to do with
[00:27:01] as you know Iran is a hot spot right now
[00:27:03] and they're meeting and they have a good
[00:27:05] relationship with the representatives of
[00:27:06] Iran and you know good talks are being
[00:27:09] had. It's proven to be over the years
[00:27:11] not easy to make a meaningful deal with
[00:27:14] Iran. We have to make a meaningful deal
[00:27:16] otherwise bad things happen but we have
[00:27:19] to make a meaningful deal. But they have
[00:27:20] a great relationship with the
[00:27:21] representatives of Iran. They have a
[00:27:24] great relationship with the other one
[00:27:26] that they're really working on now
[00:27:27] because so many of these I mean as an
[00:27:29] example Kosovo
[00:27:31] Serbia I did that one. Could you stand
[00:27:35] up if any of you guys are when you're
[00:27:36] here just stand up for a second. Kosovo
[00:27:38] Serbia stand up. What a job. Thank you
[00:27:42] very much. We appreciate it. So good.
[00:27:46] And you're getting along. And when you
[00:27:48] don't get along, you call me and I'll
[00:27:50] we'll get it solved, right? We'll get it
[00:27:52] solved. Uh thank you very much. Really
[00:27:54] good. And then again Pakistan and India.
[00:27:56] That was a big one. And and just uh I
[00:27:59] think you should actually stand. Come
[00:28:00] please stand just for a second. Pakistan
[00:28:03] and India. Thank you very much. And
[00:28:06] Prime I spoke to Prime Minister Modi.
[00:28:08] He's excited. He's watching us right
[00:28:10] now.
[00:28:12] Egypt and Ethiopia. We're going to get
[00:28:15] that you know there's a little dam that
[00:28:16] got built. Little dam like maybe the
[00:28:19] largest dam in the world. built and
[00:28:21] financed of course by the United States
[00:28:23] brilliantly and uh having a little
[00:28:27] trouble getting water to the Nile. Uh
[00:28:30] it's not that's a tough situation, but
[00:28:32] we're going to get that solved. Armenia
[00:28:35] and Azerbaijan we talked about and again
[00:28:38] thank you fellas very much. Great job.
[00:28:40] Great job. Thank you.
[00:28:43] Cambodia and Thailand. Uh so incredible
[00:28:47] what you did that you you got together
[00:28:49] and it all worked out. They're watching.
[00:28:52] They're watching right now in closed
[00:28:53] circuit. Thank you very much. And thank
[00:28:55] you. That was a big one. Cambodia and
[00:28:58] Thailand, these are nasty fighters. I
[00:29:00] have to tell you these fighters are
[00:29:02] nasty. Uh now we talk about you talk
[00:29:07] nasty fighter,
[00:29:09] you're nice guys compared to this Congo
[00:29:12] and Rwanda. at was and we've got them
[00:29:17] pretty peaceful. There's little
[00:29:19] flare-ups every once in a while. I'll
[00:29:20] get a call once a week. Sir, there's a
[00:29:23] flare up in the Congo again. We'll get
[00:29:25] it straightened out, right Susie? We get
[00:29:27] it straightened out.
[00:29:29] And Israel, as you know, with you could
[00:29:32] say Israel and numerous countries if you
[00:29:34] want to really know the chance, but
[00:29:36] Israel and Iran and we'll see where that
[00:29:39] goes. But when you think of Israel, we
[00:29:41] have we've done the biggest thing of
[00:29:43] all. We have peace in the Middle East
[00:29:44] right now. That's bigger than people
[00:29:46] said it couldn't be done for 3,000
[00:29:48] years. They've been talking about Middle
[00:29:50] East. They said it couldn't be done. And
[00:29:53] uh you look at what's happened on Gaza.
[00:29:56] And one of the keys to it was when we
[00:29:59] took those beautiful, magnificent, we
[00:30:01] just ordered 22 more of them. Uh updated
[00:30:05] model. The B2 bombers are incredible. I
[00:30:08] never understood the B2 bomber. I'd
[00:30:09] watch. It's a wing. And I've never quite
[00:30:12] understood that, Johnny. I'd look at it.
[00:30:14] I say it was beautiful, but what does it
[00:30:15] do? It carries very big bombs. And uh it
[00:30:20] went into Iran and it totally decimated
[00:30:22] the nuclear nuclear potential. And when
[00:30:26] it did, when it decimated that uh all of
[00:30:29] a sudden we had peace in the Middle East
[00:30:31] because nobody there was a black cloud
[00:30:33] hanging over the Middle East. And if
[00:30:34] that wasn't done, uh that cloud would
[00:30:37] have been there. and countries like
[00:30:39] Saudi Arabia, countries like Qatar,
[00:30:42] countries like nobody could have signed.
[00:30:43] You would have had that threat. Nobody
[00:30:46] could have had you couldn't had peace in
[00:30:47] the Middle East. So now we may have to
[00:30:49] take it a step further or we may not.
[00:30:51] Maybe we're going to make a deal with
[00:30:52] you're going to be you're going to be
[00:30:53] finding out over the next probably 10
[00:30:56] days. But this meeting today is proof
[00:30:59] with determined leadership nothing is
[00:31:01] impossible. When I took office, the war
[00:31:03] in Gaza was raging with thousands of
[00:31:05] people being killed and no end in sight.
[00:31:08] Today, thanks to unrelenting diplomacy
[00:31:10] and the commitment of many of the great
[00:31:12] people in this room, we have 59
[00:31:15] countries signed up on Gaza.
[00:31:18] Think of that. We have uh it's amazing.
[00:31:22] But all the people, many really so many
[00:31:24] in this room, the war in Gaza is over.
[00:31:28] It's over. There are little flames.
[00:31:30] Little flames. Hamas has been I think
[00:31:33] they're going to give up their weapons,
[00:31:35] which is what they promised. If they
[00:31:37] don't, it'll be, you know, they'll be
[00:31:38] harshly met. Very harshly met. They
[00:31:40] don't want that. You know, all the stuff
[00:31:42] like they don't mind dying. They told me
[00:31:45] that's not true.
[00:31:47] Everyone said, "Oh, they don't mind
[00:31:49] dying." No, they don't want to die. They
[00:31:50] said, "We don't want to die. People
[00:31:52] don't want to die." The ceasefire was
[00:31:55] held and every last remaining hostage,
[00:31:58] both living and dead, has been returned
[00:32:00] back home. Think of that. That was an
[00:32:02] impossibility. And we did hundreds of
[00:32:04] hostages. But the last 20, and I always
[00:32:06] said to Steve and Jared, I said, "The
[00:32:09] last 20 are going to be very tough.
[00:32:11] Very, very tough."
[00:32:13] And we got them back. We got the living
[00:32:14] back. And then we only got about 16 of
[00:32:17] the dead. And we said, "Well, you got to
[00:32:18] get them all. You promised them all."
[00:32:21] And they dug and dug and dug. You can
[00:32:23] imagine it's a job that's brutal. And
[00:32:27] Hamas really did a lot of that work. And
[00:32:30] you got to give them credit for that.
[00:32:32] They uh they brought the last last one
[00:32:36] home a week ago
[00:32:39] and we got all 28 of them living and
[00:32:41] dead. The amazing thing because I've
[00:32:43] never seen anything quite like it. The
[00:32:45] the parents of the dead, they knew their
[00:32:47] boy was dead. This case boys, all boys,
[00:32:50] men. But to the parents' boys, they knew
[00:32:54] their boy was dead. They wanted that
[00:32:57] dead body as much as if he were alive.
[00:33:01] And when they got them back, there was
[00:33:05] great sadness, but there was great joy,
[00:33:07] too. They wanted it as much as the
[00:33:09] people that got their sons back alive.
[00:33:13] But we got a lot of people before those
[00:33:15] 20, Steve, what nobody talks about, but
[00:33:17] you know, hundreds of people. Uh we did
[00:33:20] a good job and you guys did a fantastic
[00:33:22] job. I want to thank every nation that
[00:33:24] helped us achieve this monumental
[00:33:26] breakthrough saving countless lives and
[00:33:31] really bringing peace and bringing the
[00:33:33] concept of peace because nobody thought
[00:33:34] peace in the Middle East. I've always
[00:33:35] heard peace in the Middle East is
[00:33:37] impossible
[00:33:38] and it's turned out not to be. And we do
[00:33:41] have some work to do with Iran. They
[00:33:45] can't have a nuclear weapon. It's very
[00:33:46] simple. They can't have you can't have
[00:33:48] peace in the Middle East if they have a
[00:33:49] nuclear weapon. And they can't have a
[00:33:52] nuclear weapon. And they've been told
[00:33:54] that very strongly. Since the hard one
[00:33:56] ceasefire of last October, the United
[00:33:59] States and our partners have facilitated
[00:34:01] the delivery of vast amounts of
[00:34:03] humanitarian aid, numbers that nobody's
[00:34:05] ever seen before. In November, the
[00:34:08] United Nations Security Council
[00:34:10] unanimously approved the Board of Peace.
[00:34:13] And last month in Davos, we welcomed
[00:34:15] over two dozen members to this very
[00:34:18] important new organization
[00:34:21] and we are very closely working with the
[00:34:23] United Nations. In fact, I'm going to
[00:34:25] speak to the secretary general in a
[00:34:28] little while is a good man and I've had
[00:34:30] a good relationship other than in my
[00:34:33] last speech they did turn off my
[00:34:35] teleprompter. I got up there, my
[00:34:38] teleprompter didn't work. I'm sitting in
[00:34:40] front of all of you people and more. I
[00:34:43] had no teleprompter. I knew I was in
[00:34:45] trouble because I'm walking up. You know
[00:34:46] the teleprompterss are over. I had the
[00:34:48] most beautiful speech, right? I was all
[00:34:51] set to knock him dead. First I had an
[00:34:54] escalator that stopped. You know that
[00:34:56] it's going up. Boom. It's lucky my movie
[00:34:59] star first lady was in front of me
[00:35:03] because I put my hand on a certain part
[00:35:05] of her body and I was able to stop my
[00:35:08] fall. otherwise because she had no
[00:35:10] trouble. I said, "Boy, that was a very
[00:35:13] sharp stop, Johnny." So, I said, "That
[00:35:16] was strange. I've I've been on a lot of
[00:35:18] escalators. It's never happened before.
[00:35:20] Usually, it stops very slowly. This was
[00:35:22] just boom, but our first lady was right
[00:35:26] in the proper location for me. I'm
[00:35:29] waving to people and uh she was holding
[00:35:32] on a little tighter. She knew what was
[00:35:34] happening." She did. She said she That's
[00:35:36] a very successful movie out right now.
[00:35:38] like number one. Can you believe this?
[00:35:41] And it's a big movie big movie star. And
[00:35:43] I always say it's trouble because I
[00:35:45] always say there's not room in one
[00:35:48] family for two stars. I told that we
[00:35:51] can't have two stars
[00:35:53] in one family. So I don't know what that
[00:35:55] means, but it's not it's not good. But
[00:35:58] it is good because we're proud of her.
[00:35:59] She did a People in the United States
[00:36:01] love the first lady and she did the
[00:36:03] movie and it's become the biggest
[00:36:07] selling documentary in 20 years. Can you
[00:36:09] believe the theaters are all packed?
[00:36:10] Women especially, they go back and they
[00:36:12] see it two or three times, four times.
[00:36:16] But together, we're committed to
[00:36:17] achieving a Gaza that is properly
[00:36:20] governed throughout the whole area is
[00:36:23] going to be, you know, so many countries
[00:36:24] that have really nothing to do with the
[00:36:26] Middle East, but they're maybe somewhat
[00:36:28] close by. They're all involved. They
[00:36:31] want to go in and fight. They tell me
[00:36:32] all the time, "We'd like to send
[00:36:33] soldiers to fight if it's necessary."
[00:36:36] And I don't think it's going to be
[00:36:37] necessary. We have two countries that
[00:36:39] want to go in and do a number on Hamas.
[00:36:43] I said, "I really don't think it's I
[00:36:44] hope it's not going to be necessary
[00:36:47] because they made a promise and they pro
[00:36:48] promised me get rid of their weapons.
[00:36:51] Looks like they're going to be doing
[00:36:52] that, but we'll have to find out.
[00:36:55] But it's no longer a hot bed of
[00:36:58] radicalism and terror.
[00:37:01] And to end that we have uh today and I'm
[00:37:04] pleased to announce that Kazakhstan,
[00:37:09] Azerbian,
[00:37:10] UAE, Morocco, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi
[00:37:13] Arabia, Usbekiststan,
[00:37:16] and Kuwait have all com contributed
[00:37:20] more than 7 billion dollars
[00:37:24] toward the relief package. That's great.
[00:37:26] Thank you, fellas. Thank you.
[00:37:33] and many more are contributing too. So
[00:37:35] the numbers are with, you know, this
[00:37:37] just started. This is our first meeting.
[00:37:40] But every dollar spent is an investment
[00:37:42] in stability and the hope of new and
[00:37:45] harmonious
[00:37:47] uh it's a region that's so important.
[00:37:49] It's so vibrant. It's so incredible. The
[00:37:51] people are so incredible. But we want to
[00:37:53] have a harmonious Middle East. The
[00:37:55] Middle East is amazing. So many friends
[00:37:58] in the Middle East. They're so smart.
[00:38:01] Sometimes they're too energetic. That's
[00:38:03] the, you know, a lot of people aren't
[00:38:04] energetic. Sometimes they're a little
[00:38:06] bit too energetic. These are great
[00:38:09] people. The world is now waiting on
[00:38:12] Hamas and that's taking place. And uh
[00:38:16] it's the only thing that's right now
[00:38:17] standing in the way. We have Lebanon
[00:38:20] with
[00:38:22] certain things that we're working on
[00:38:23] that are very important. We have to
[00:38:26] solve the problem of Lebanon, but it's
[00:38:28] uh relatively small in terms of what
[00:38:31] we've what's been done. And again, the
[00:38:34] key was getting rid of the nuclear
[00:38:36] potential because Iran would have had a
[00:38:38] nuclear weapon based on everything we
[00:38:40] found out since within one month. We
[00:38:42] can't let that happen. So many of our
[00:38:44] friends in Europe are attending today
[00:38:46] and we're eager to have them become full
[00:38:50] members. They all want to become full
[00:38:51] members and we've had a great response
[00:38:54] from Europe and Europe is you know it's
[00:38:56] where I come from where so many people
[00:38:58] come from that are in the United States
[00:39:01] but we have a great relationship with
[00:39:03] Europe we have a great head of NATO he
[00:39:06] is a fantastic man and he's doing a
[00:39:08] great job really great job I'm excited
[00:39:12] to announce that Norway has agreed to
[00:39:14] host an event bringing together the
[00:39:17] board of peace oh I thought when I saw
[00:39:20] saw this note. I'm excited to announce
[00:39:22] that Norway I thought they were going to
[00:39:24] say that
[00:39:25] they're giving me the Nobel Prize. Oh,
[00:39:29] this is less exciting.
[00:39:31] Oh, says I'm excited to announce that
[00:39:34] Norway. And I'm saying, oh, great. I'm
[00:39:36] getting the Nobel Prize finally.
[00:39:37] Finally, they got it right. But I don't
[00:39:40] care. I don't care about Nobel Prize. I
[00:39:42] care about saving lives. Just so you
[00:39:43] understand, we play and we all, you
[00:39:46] know, do what we have to do. I only have
[00:39:48] one thing. I don't want to see people
[00:39:49] killed from parts of the world that are
[00:39:52] very far away from the United States.
[00:39:53] And if I have an ability to turn off to
[00:39:56] turn off wars, I want to use that
[00:39:57] ability because it's people, millions of
[00:39:59] people.
[00:40:01] It's like the prime minister said, 25
[00:40:03] million people maybe. And that's a small
[00:40:05] number compared to what it could have
[00:40:07] been if you really think about it,
[00:40:08] right? No, I want to save lives and I
[00:40:11] don't care about prizes. in the UN
[00:40:14] office for coordination of humanitarian
[00:40:18] assistance is raising $2 billion
[00:40:22] for the support of Gaza. Additionally,
[00:40:25] Japan has just committed to host an aid
[00:40:28] fundraiser which will be a very big one,
[00:40:30] very it's already successful. We know
[00:40:33] some of the numbers that are being
[00:40:34] talked about which will be attended by
[00:40:36] other nations in the region including
[00:40:39] South Korea, the Philippines, Singapore
[00:40:41] and others. And I know that China is
[00:40:44] going to be involved and I think
[00:40:45] Russia's going to be involved. I think
[00:40:46] they will be uh want to have everybody
[00:40:51] get all sides because it doesn't help
[00:40:54] when you have all sides with one
[00:40:56] ideology. You have to have everybody
[00:40:58] together for this. I'm also pleased to
[00:41:00] announce that FIFA will be helping to
[00:41:04] raise a total of $75 million for
[00:41:06] projects in Gaza. And I think they're
[00:41:09] soccer related where you're doing fields
[00:41:11] and you're getting the greatest stars in
[00:41:13] the world to go there. People that are
[00:41:15] bigger stars than you and I, Johnny. I
[00:41:17] hate to say it. You know, I met one of
[00:41:21] your great stars who came to the White
[00:41:22] House, as you know, and he's uh my son
[00:41:25] was very excited. He he's these are
[00:41:28] great people. These are great people. Uh
[00:41:32] and Johnny's uh going to bring the stars
[00:41:35] to the area. and they're really known
[00:41:37] people in Gaza know every one of them
[00:41:39] right you know so it's really something
[00:41:42] and we'll soon be uh detailing the
[00:41:45] announcement and if I can do I'll get
[00:41:47] over there with you I want to thank
[00:41:50] Johnny and FIFA for all of the wonderful
[00:41:52] things they did and are doing gave me
[00:41:56] their first peace prize they gave me a
[00:41:59] peace prize I think they saw that I got
[00:42:02] screwed by Norway and they said let's
[00:42:03] give him a peace prize I mean very good
[00:42:05] thank you Johnny I apprei
[00:42:07] Johnny's very smart.
[00:42:09] >> She's very very smart. The uh nations
[00:42:13] represented here today just in closing
[00:42:15] are not just contributing money. Some
[00:42:18] are also pledging personnel to help
[00:42:20] preserve the ceasefire and secure a very
[00:42:23] enduring peace. We have to have enduring
[00:42:25] peace. Having peace knowing it's going
[00:42:27] to blow up in two weeks doesn't mean
[00:42:29] anything. In particular, Indonesia,
[00:42:32] thank you very much, Indonesia.
[00:42:35] That's a great country.
[00:42:38] Thank you very much. Look at Look at
[00:42:40] that man. Look how tough he is. You
[00:42:42] think it's easy dealing with him? Look
[00:42:44] at that face. You are a tough cookie.
[00:42:46] And we say it lovingly, too. We need
[00:42:48] strength. You say, "See, he doesn't
[00:42:51] mind. He's tough and he's smart. And
[00:42:54] smart is more important."
[00:42:57] Morocco. Thank you very much. Great.
[00:43:00] What you're doing is great. Albania,
[00:43:03] Kosovo,
[00:43:05] Kazakhstan have all committed troops and
[00:43:07] police to stabilize Gaza. Egypt and
[00:43:09] Jordan are likewise providing
[00:43:12] very, very substantial help, troops,
[00:43:15] training, and support for a very
[00:43:18] trustworthy Palestinian police force. We
[00:43:20] think we're getting some very good
[00:43:22] people on that police force. And you
[00:43:24] know, it's peace in the Middle East. We
[00:43:26] have peace in the Middle East. Just
[00:43:27] think of it. For years, you've been
[00:43:29] hearing about peace in the Middle East.
[00:43:30] and everybody who's saying it's
[00:43:32] impossible.
[00:43:34] All of these countries are working
[00:43:35] together around the vision of a Middle
[00:43:37] East that is free from the curse of
[00:43:39] extremism and terror. And now is the
[00:43:42] time. And by the way, even people with
[00:43:44] extremism and preaching extremism,
[00:43:46] they're exhausted. They're tired. It's
[00:43:49] been going on for too many years. I
[00:43:50] don't care who you are, they're tired.
[00:43:53] They want peace. And now is the time for
[00:43:56] Iran to join us on a path that will
[00:43:59] complete what we're doing. And if they
[00:44:02] join us, that'll be great. If they don't
[00:44:03] join us, that'll be great, too. But
[00:44:06] it'll be a very different path. They
[00:44:08] cannot continue to threaten the
[00:44:10] stability of the entire region. And they
[00:44:13] must make a deal or if that doesn't
[00:44:16] happen, I maybe can understand if it
[00:44:18] doesn't happen, it doesn't happen. But
[00:44:21] uh bad things will happen if it doesn't.
[00:44:25] With the commitments announced today,
[00:44:26] the border of peace is proving that it
[00:44:29] does not just convene countries. It
[00:44:32] devises and implements and real
[00:44:35] solutions happen. We we've we've come up
[00:44:38] with solutions. This is so little talk.
[00:44:41] This is very little talk, all action.
[00:44:43] First time it was always talk in the
[00:44:45] Middle East. People would talk about
[00:44:46] peace in the Middle East and then they'd
[00:44:48] go home and they'd never even think
[00:44:49] about it again. Nothing would happen.
[00:44:52] We're providing a model for how
[00:44:54] responsible sovereign nations can
[00:44:56] cooperate to take responsibility for
[00:44:58] confronting problems in their own
[00:45:00] regions. The border of peace is showing
[00:45:02] how a better future can be built
[00:45:05] starting right here in this room. And I
[00:45:07] I want to let you know that the United
[00:45:09] States is going to make a contribution
[00:45:11] of 10 billion dollars to the border of
[00:45:13] peace. Thank you.
[00:45:20] And we've had great support for that
[00:45:23] number. And that number is a very small
[00:45:24] number when you look at uh that compared
[00:45:27] to the cost of war. That's uh that's two
[00:45:31] weeks of fighting. It's a very small
[00:45:33] number. Sounds like a lot, but it's a
[00:45:35] very small number. So we're committed to
[00:45:37] 10 billion dollars. Together we can
[00:45:39] achieve the dream of bringing lasting
[00:45:41] harmony to a region tortured by
[00:45:43] centuries of war, suffering, and
[00:45:46] carnage. They say 3,000 years. And
[00:45:48] hopefully we can lift up the eyes of the
[00:45:50] world to envision how other intractable
[00:45:54] conflicts can be settled. So many
[00:45:56] conflicts, they'd say, are impossible to
[00:45:58] settle. We get them settled. We got of
[00:46:01] those eight that we settled, most of
[00:46:03] them were said to be not settable.
[00:46:06] And they not only got settled, they got
[00:46:08] settled within days. More impossible
[00:46:12] problems can be solved as we go along
[00:46:14] this very beautiful path. I think it's a
[00:46:16] beautiful path. I think it's such an
[00:46:17] important day. Even the weather's
[00:46:19] beautiful. We walk in, it's beautiful.
[00:46:22] Everything's beautiful. But the ancient
[00:46:24] wounds can be healed and they are indeed
[00:46:27] ancient. This has been going on for so
[00:46:29] many centuries that our entire planet
[00:46:32] will be a better, safer, more beautiful,
[00:46:34] and more peaceful place for us all.
[00:46:37] We're going to be working with the
[00:46:38] United Nations very closely. We're going
[00:46:40] to bring them back. I think the United
[00:46:41] Nations has great potential. Really
[00:46:44] great potential. It has not lived up to
[00:46:46] potential. The eight wars, I never even
[00:46:49] spoke to them about one of them, and I
[00:46:51] should be speaking to him about all of
[00:46:53] them. Someday I won't be here. The
[00:46:56] United Nations will be, I think, is
[00:46:59] going to be much stronger and the border
[00:47:00] of peace is going to almost be looking
[00:47:02] over the United Nations and making sure
[00:47:05] it runs properly. But we're going to
[00:47:08] strengthen up the United Nations. We're
[00:47:10] going to make sure it's facilities are
[00:47:12] good. They need help and they need help
[00:47:14] money-wise. We're going to help them
[00:47:15] moneywise and we're going to make sure
[00:47:18] the United Nations is viable. And you
[00:47:21] have some very good people at the United
[00:47:22] Nations can do a good job. But as I
[00:47:25] said, it's I've said it for years.
[00:47:26] United Nations has tremendous potential.
[00:47:28] A lot of people didn't like what I said.
[00:47:30] They said, "Oh, you shouldn't say that
[00:47:31] because you know, we don't care about
[00:47:34] the United Nations." No, it's really
[00:47:35] very important and uh I think it's going
[00:47:38] to eventually live up to potential.
[00:47:40] That'll be a big day. So, I want to
[00:47:42] thank everybody for being here. You're
[00:47:43] my friends. You're great, great leaders.
[00:47:46] You're great people. And uh I can
[00:47:50] honestly say, you know, you're strong
[00:47:51] leaders. You're tough leaders in many
[00:47:53] cases. said, "Every single one that I'm
[00:47:55] looking at that's right here, I've
[00:47:57] gotten to know and I've gotten to
[00:47:59] respect and and really your friends,
[00:48:00] your friends of mine. And if I can help
[00:48:02] you at all, you let me know. But this is
[00:48:04] going to be something the Board of Peace
[00:48:06] will be something that the likes of
[00:48:08] which I don't think anybody's seen
[00:48:09] before. And thank you all very much.
[00:48:11] It's a great honor." I'm going to ask J.
[00:48:13] D. Vance to come up and say a few words.
[00:48:14] Thank you very much.
[00:48:29] Well, uh, thank you, Mr. President, very
[00:48:31] much for your leadership, but also for
[00:48:33] the the kind words about me personally.
[00:48:35] I knew exactly what I wanted to say, but
[00:48:37] then after the president said that I was
[00:48:39] so smart and that I didn't want to
[00:48:41] repeat our congresswoman who froze for
[00:48:43] 20 seconds over in Munich, now I'm
[00:48:45] tempted, sir, just to freeze for 20
[00:48:47] seconds and just stare at the cameras
[00:48:49] and maybe they'll say nice things about
[00:48:51] me like they do about Congresswoman
[00:48:52] Cortez. But I I have three very brief
[00:48:55] messages. First of all, to the uh to the
[00:48:57] president of the United States, but to
[00:48:59] the entire team, to Marco, to Steve, to
[00:49:01] Jared in particular who've done such an
[00:49:03] incredible job. I think what this board
[00:49:05] of peace represents is a recognition
[00:49:07] that if you actually have a president of
[00:49:10] the United States and a team that's
[00:49:11] committed to diplomacy, it can actually
[00:49:14] work. When I look at what happened to
[00:49:16] Israel on October the 7th, all those
[00:49:18] innocent people who were murdered, the
[00:49:19] fact that you had all of these hostages
[00:49:21] and of course a terrible war that came
[00:49:23] from it, I remember thinking to myself,
[00:49:25] how is it ever going to be possible to
[00:49:27] get these hostages home safely to make
[00:49:30] it possible for the people of Gaza to
[00:49:32] actually have a reasonable future, but
[00:49:34] also to ensure that Israel is never
[00:49:36] attacked again? It turns out the answer
[00:49:38] was you just needed a president who was
[00:49:39] committed to the effort and committed to
[00:49:41] the work. And that's what we had
[00:49:43] thankfully under the leadership of this
[00:49:44] president. And you got to make peace,
[00:49:47] but then you have to make the peace
[00:49:48] stick. And that brings me to my second
[00:49:50] point. That's what the board of peace I
[00:49:51] think is fundamentally about is making
[00:49:53] the peace stick. And it's an incredible
[00:49:56] thing that you guys have all done. So to
[00:49:58] all of the leaders gathered here today
[00:50:00] who are investing in the future, who are
[00:50:02] investing in peace, we're grateful to
[00:50:04] you. We're grateful for your
[00:50:05] partnership. And in particular, I think
[00:50:07] to the to the president of Azarbaian and
[00:50:09] the prime minister of our media who I
[00:50:11] just saw last week. Thank you all for
[00:50:13] making it possible and for showing what
[00:50:15] real leadership can accomplish when you
[00:50:17] set aside weapons and killing and
[00:50:20] destruction and invest in your people
[00:50:21] and invest in prosperity. It can create
[00:50:24] great things. So, thank you both for
[00:50:25] what you did. I think it showed great
[00:50:27] leadership. And finally, to the American
[00:50:29] people, I think it's important that the
[00:50:30] American people recognize why we're here
[00:50:33] today. And the reason that we're here
[00:50:35] today is yes to save lives and yes to
[00:50:38] promote peace, but this creates
[00:50:40] incredible prosperity for the American
[00:50:42] people. The countries represented here
[00:50:45] represent trillions of dollars of
[00:50:47] investment in the United States of
[00:50:49] America that would not have been
[00:50:50] possible without this president's
[00:50:52] leadership and advocacy for peace. The
[00:50:54] economies here represent millions of
[00:50:57] American jobs of people who are
[00:50:59] receiving products built in American
[00:51:01] factories and made by American workers
[00:51:03] would not be possible without a focus on
[00:51:06] peace. So, Mr. President, while I think
[00:51:08] this is great for the world, I also
[00:51:09] think it's really, really great for the
[00:51:11] United States of America. So, we're
[00:51:12] looking forward to the partnership. With
[00:51:14] that, I want to turn it over to the MC
[00:51:16] for the rest of the program, and that is
[00:51:19] our great press secretary, Carolyn
[00:51:20] Levit. Thank you.
[00:51:27] Well, congratulations, Mr. President and
[00:51:29] Mr. Vice President, for convening the
[00:51:31] first ever Board of Peace meeting. And
[00:51:34] we will now hear from our Secretary of
[00:51:35] State, Marco Rubio.
[00:51:45] >> I'll be I'll be brief and and to the
[00:51:47] point. We want to talk a little bit
[00:51:48] about the strategic vision of this
[00:51:49] organization and begin doing so by first
[00:51:52] acknowledging that we are here today
[00:51:54] because the president has president of
[00:51:55] the United States Donald J. Trump has
[00:51:58] both an ability and a willingness to use
[00:52:00] the power of his office to think outside
[00:52:02] the box. And that's why we're here
[00:52:03] today. This was a very unique crisis in
[00:52:05] Gaza, one that the existing
[00:52:07] international institutions could not
[00:52:09] solve or figure out. It needed a very
[00:52:12] specific type solution that required the
[00:52:14] partnership of all the nations that are
[00:52:15] here, including those that are here on
[00:52:17] an observer status. And we appreciate
[00:52:19] you coming today and being a part of
[00:52:20] this as well. And that's the point I
[00:52:22] want to drive home today. And soon
[00:52:23] you'll hear from Steve and and Jared,
[00:52:25] who by the way deserve an incredible
[00:52:27] amount of credit for pulling this
[00:52:28] together and working countless hours and
[00:52:30] traveling all over the world. They truly
[00:52:32] deserve our appreciation and thanks for
[00:52:34] the work they've put in under the
[00:52:35] leadership of President Trump to make
[00:52:37] this possible. This Gaza situation was
[00:52:39] impossible to solve under orthodoxy,
[00:52:42] under existing structures. And so what
[00:52:44] we did is they went to the UN and they
[00:52:45] got the UN's approval to put this group
[00:52:47] together and bring these nations
[00:52:48] together to come up with a very specific
[00:52:51] solution solutions to a very unique and
[00:52:53] specific problem. We have a long ways to
[00:52:56] go. There's a lot of work that remains.
[00:52:57] It will require the contribution of
[00:52:59] every nation state represented here
[00:53:01] today. And we thank you for being a part
[00:53:02] of it. And I hope that this we hope that
[00:53:04] this can serve as a model for other
[00:53:07] complex and difficult situations so they
[00:53:09] can be solved in the same way. But right
[00:53:11] now the focus is on this one. We have to
[00:53:13] get this right. There is no plan B for
[00:53:15] Gaza. Plan B is going back to war. No
[00:53:18] one here wants that. Plan A, the only
[00:53:20] path forward, is one that rebuilds Gaza
[00:53:22] in a way of enduring and sustainable
[00:53:24] peace where everyone can live their side
[00:53:26] by side with one another and never worry
[00:53:28] again about returning to to conflict, to
[00:53:31] war, to human suffering, and to
[00:53:32] destruction. And again, Mr. President,
[00:53:35] thank you for having the vision and the
[00:53:36] courage to pursue something that has
[00:53:37] never been done before. And we're not
[00:53:39] done yet. And thank you to to Steve
[00:53:41] Woodoff and Jared Kushner for the time
[00:53:43] and the work they put into this. And
[00:53:45] thank you on behalf of the State
[00:53:46] Department and the US government to all
[00:53:48] of the nations that are here. Every one
[00:53:49] of you is indispensable, including our
[00:53:51] observer partners who we hope can find
[00:53:54] your way to join us at some point as
[00:53:56] officially part of this. But we are
[00:53:57] grateful for the fact you're here today
[00:53:58] and the contributions you've made
[00:54:00] already. Thank you.
[00:54:06] >> Thank you, Marco. We will now hear from
[00:54:08] our special envoy, Steve Whitoff.
[00:54:15] Thank you everybody for being here. Um I
[00:54:18] don't know if we ever believed that this
[00:54:20] was possible when we first started
[00:54:22] envisioning um a board of peace, but of
[00:54:25] course under the president's
[00:54:27] indispensable leadership and it begins
[00:54:30] with that. It begins with President
[00:54:31] Trump's leadership and his direction, we
[00:54:34] are here today and it's pretty amazing.
[00:54:37] I think we have some people to thank. We
[00:54:39] had an amazing partnership between the
[00:54:42] mediating countries Qatar,
[00:54:45] Egypt, Turkey, Prime Minister Muhammad,
[00:54:49] you are an exceptional human being. You
[00:54:51] really are. Ali, thank you for
[00:54:54] everything you did. That's you right
[00:54:56] over there, Ali. Wherever Hakan is,
[00:54:59] Hakan, you were amazing.
[00:55:02] And so was uh Iraham and and President
[00:55:06] Erdogan. And of course to the Egyptians
[00:55:10] B I know you're smiling because we went
[00:55:12] through so much and General Hassan was
[00:55:15] amazing. Every we all became friends
[00:55:17] here. Um and and uh Prime Minister Cece
[00:55:21] uh President Cece, pardon me. Um and so
[00:55:25] many others. But our team JD, your
[00:55:29] insight, your counsel, and Marco, you're
[00:55:32] an amazing secretary and it's a
[00:55:34] privilege to work for you. and Jared,
[00:55:37] you are my dear friend and the best
[00:55:39] partner I ever had. You are an amazing
[00:55:41] person.
[00:55:43] But Mr. President, it is my greatest
[00:55:45] honor to work for you. You are it is the
[00:55:48] blessing in my life. I've had many
[00:55:49] blessings. I don't I don't have to be a
[00:55:51] practicing lawyer anymore. But um but
[00:55:53] this is my greatest blessing. But I also
[00:55:56] have to mention one other person who is
[00:55:58] important to this discussion. Oh, the
[00:56:00] Israelis. I forgot. Prime Minister
[00:56:02] Netanyahu.
[00:56:04] without him much wouldn't have been
[00:56:06] accomplished as well. And that's really
[00:56:08] important that we acknowledge him here
[00:56:10] today and and Ron Durmer. But um a
[00:56:14] person who uh doesn't uh doesn't care
[00:56:17] much about the acclaim we have to
[00:56:19] acknowledge acknowledge too and that's
[00:56:22] you Susie because I would come back and
[00:56:25] you would say to me on every trip, what
[00:56:27] can I do for you? this matters and you
[00:56:32] are an inspiration for all of us. So I
[00:56:35] thank everybody and um
[00:56:38] let me get on to am I going on to the
[00:56:40] next slide?
[00:56:41] >> Sure
[00:56:41] >> Caroline.
[00:56:42] >> Sure.
[00:56:43] >> Okay. So with regard to the hostages
[00:56:48] we're here today again I say it I know
[00:56:50] it sounds redundant but we're here today
[00:56:52] because of President Trump. Without him
[00:56:54] nothing none of this was possible. There
[00:56:57] were 251 hostages.
[00:56:59] 168 came out alive. 83 bodies were
[00:57:03] returned to their families so that they
[00:57:05] could grieve and um remember their loved
[00:57:10] ones like like
[00:57:13] in in a normal way um in a in a way that
[00:57:16] brought their families together. So that
[00:57:18] was just as important.
[00:57:20] This was a monumental effort and I want
[00:57:24] to tell a story about the president.
[00:57:28] Every time a hostage family came to
[00:57:30] visit with us, they were not on the
[00:57:32] president's schedule. I would walk down
[00:57:34] to the Oval Office, I would tell the
[00:57:36] president that there was a hostage
[00:57:38] family here and he would say, "Steve,
[00:57:40] bring them up." Every single time.
[00:57:44] And when we got the last 20 out, we had
[00:57:48] a celebration at the White House. And I
[00:57:50] could see the emotion on the president's
[00:57:51] face. And he came up to me and he said
[00:57:54] to me, "I have to tell you, this is my
[00:57:57] fifth year in the Oval Office. And I
[00:58:00] don't know that I've ever had a more
[00:58:03] special time than this moment with these
[00:58:06] people, seeing them come home.
[00:58:15] And I said to the president, you have to
[00:58:18] look around because none of them would
[00:58:19] be home without you, sir. None of them.
[00:58:22] So, um, I only want to tell you, Mr.
[00:58:25] President, you gave me my greatest honor
[00:58:28] to work on this on on this effort, and I
[00:58:30] thank you.
[00:58:40] Thank you, Steve. Now, you're going to
[00:58:42] hear directly from the team that has
[00:58:43] been tasked with implementing President
[00:58:45] Trump's 20point plan for Gaza, beginning
[00:58:48] with our ambassador to the United
[00:58:50] Nations, Mike Waltz.
[00:58:53] >> Thank you, and thank you, Mr. President,
[00:58:55] excellencies. First, let me wish
[00:58:56] everyone a happy and prayerful Ramadan.
[00:59:00] Thank you so much uh for joining all of
[00:59:03] us today. Mr. President Excellency's
[00:59:06] bottom line, humanitarian aid has
[00:59:09] absolutely surged since the Gaza war
[00:59:12] ended. Our central command, our great
[00:59:14] military is working together with
[00:59:15] Israel, with the UN. So many countries
[00:59:18] here to coordinate the aid to make sure
[00:59:20] there's deconliction. Over 70 countries
[00:59:24] now are participating in our civil
[00:59:26] military command center. And here are
[00:59:29] the results. Aid is up. 4,200
[00:59:33] aid trucks have entered Gaza each week
[00:59:37] for 13 consecutive weeks. The longest
[00:59:40] stretch of high volume assistance to
[00:59:42] Gaza in years. Diversion is down
[00:59:45] significantly from prior to the
[00:59:48] ceasefire with less than 1% diverted
[00:59:50] this month. Food supplies are way up. We
[00:59:53] are reaching the full 2.1 million gazins
[00:59:56] with aid up to up five times from the
[00:59:59] delivery levels before the ceasefire.
[01:00:02] The percentage of households
[01:00:03] experiencing severe hunger has dropped
[01:00:06] from about 30% to down to 1%. Uh as of
[01:00:11] this past February, drinking water has
[01:00:14] doubled and child malnutrition has been
[01:00:17] cut in half. Uh if we could go to the
[01:00:19] the next slide, Mr. President, only
[01:00:22] under your leadership and this great
[01:00:24] team could we bring together the United
[01:00:27] States, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, the UAE,
[01:00:30] the United Nations agencies. Mr.
[01:00:33] President, bottom line, like you, this
[01:00:36] is a board of action, not a board of
[01:00:39] endless talk or speeches. And these
[01:00:42] results are a true testament uh to your
[01:00:44] leadership and the leadership of this
[01:00:46] great team. We are saving lives uh and
[01:00:49] it's an honor to be a part of it. Thank
[01:00:50] you, Mr. President.
[01:00:56] >> Dr. Ali Shy.
[01:01:00] >> It is my honor to be here representing
[01:01:02] the National Committee for the
[01:01:04] Administration of Gaza.
[01:01:08] Thank you, President Trump, for your
[01:01:11] leadership for your continued efforts. A
[01:01:15] new governing authority is now in place
[01:01:17] for Gaza with a clear mandate and a
[01:01:21] clear commitment
[01:01:23] to establishing
[01:01:25] development and stability.
[01:01:29] However, we are operating in extremely
[01:01:32] difficult conditions.
[01:01:34] Large parts of Gaza Strip are severely
[01:01:38] damaged, destroyed. Actually,
[01:01:41] humanitarian needs
[01:01:43] are acute.
[01:01:45] Law and order remain fragile.
[01:01:50] This is not normal operating
[01:01:52] environment, president, which is
[01:01:55] precisely why discipline and
[01:01:59] priorization
[01:02:01] matter.
[01:02:05] Our priorities therefore are defined
[01:02:08] into four categories.
[01:02:10] First, restore security
[01:02:14] via professional civilian police
[01:02:17] under once authority one law and one
[01:02:21] weapon
[01:02:22] including training and developing
[01:02:26] 5,000 Gazan police to be deployed in 60
[01:02:29] days.
[01:02:31] Secondly, revive economic activities and
[01:02:35] livelihoods,
[01:02:37] creating decent jobs, especially for our
[01:02:41] young population.
[01:02:44] Thirdly, ensure sustainable emergency
[01:02:47] relief as described earlier.
[01:02:51] Fourthly, restore basic services
[01:02:54] including electricity, water, health,
[01:02:57] and education.
[01:02:59] And last but not least, the access and
[01:03:01] movement.
[01:03:03] Our mandate is simple, president, step
[01:03:07] by step to build the foundation for
[01:03:10] lasting peace, dignity, and prosperity
[01:03:14] for the people of Gaza.
[01:03:16] And this is where we count on your
[01:03:20] continued leadership and support.
[01:03:23] Bless the peacemaker.
[01:03:26] Thank you.
[01:03:33] Thank you. Now, Nick Madinov.
[01:03:37] Thank you, Caroline, and thank you, Mr.
[01:03:38] President. Um today we're very happy to
[01:03:42] announce that we're creating the office
[01:03:43] of the high representative for Gaza of
[01:03:45] the Board of Peace which will be there
[01:03:48] to support to guide and assist the
[01:03:50] national committee for the
[01:03:51] administration of Gaza hopefully
[01:03:54] removing the roadblocks that they will
[01:03:55] be facing in taking over taking over
[01:03:57] civilian and administrative control of
[01:04:00] the Gaza Strip. We plan to work in full
[01:04:02] transparency under the guidelines of and
[01:04:05] supervision of the board of peace and
[01:04:06] the executive board and of course we
[01:04:08] will do that in great coordination with
[01:04:10] the Israel and with the Palestinian
[01:04:12] institutions who we both require to make
[01:04:14] this work on the ground and certainly uh
[01:04:17] with my very good colleague here uh
[01:04:20] General Jefferson the international
[01:04:21] stabilization force that is coming
[01:04:23] together. Mr. President, if I can
[01:04:25] actually use the opportunity to announce
[01:04:27] some breaking news that as of this
[01:04:29] morning, we started the process of
[01:04:31] recruiting Palestinian police force that
[01:04:34] Ali was just referring to. And just in
[01:04:37] the first few hours, we have 2,000
[01:04:40] people who have applied to join a new
[01:04:43] transitional Palestinian police force to
[01:04:45] be formed in Gaza under the authority of
[01:04:48] the national committee with the support
[01:04:50] of the board of peace trained in Egypt
[01:04:52] where we have received an excellent
[01:04:53] proposal of how to do that forward. And
[01:04:55] this is critical to what we need to do
[01:04:57] um as we begin this process. And if we
[01:04:59] may move to the second slide.
[01:05:03] It is this Palestinian security force
[01:05:06] under the authority of the National
[01:05:08] Committee for the Transition period that
[01:05:10] will allow us to ensure that all
[01:05:12] factions in Gaza are dismantled and all
[01:05:15] weapons are put under the control of one
[01:05:18] civilian authority. The only way to do
[01:05:20] that is the full implementation of the
[01:05:22] 20point plan in the UN Security Council
[01:05:24] resolution which binds us all to make
[01:05:26] sure that that is the way forward. We
[01:05:28] have now a fully agreed framework with
[01:05:30] the mediators on how to do this and I
[01:05:33] thank very much the state of Qatar,
[01:05:35] Egypt and Turkey for their excellent
[01:05:37] support in this. We now need to move
[01:05:39] forward on communicating it um and
[01:05:41] negotiating the details of the
[01:05:43] implementation plan with the factions on
[01:05:45] the ground. But rest assured to all of
[01:05:47] you that we're on the right track and if
[01:05:49] I can ask one thing of all of us is to
[01:05:51] make sure that we have one message.
[01:05:53] There is no other option except the full
[01:05:55] demilitarization and decommissioning of
[01:05:58] all weapons in Gaza for reconstruction
[01:06:00] to begin and for people to have a new uh
[01:06:03] way of life going forward. Thank you.
[01:06:10] >> Thank you, Nick. And congratulations
[01:06:12] now, Major General Jasper Jeffers.
[01:06:15] >> Thank you, Caroline, Mr. President. It's
[01:06:16] an honor to be here today as the ISF
[01:06:18] commander. The ISF will do two things.
[01:06:21] stabilize the security environment in
[01:06:22] Gaza and enable civilian governance as
[01:06:25] established by the National Committee.
[01:06:27] For the last few months, we've had a
[01:06:28] team on the ground of US military
[01:06:30] experts preparing the infrastructure for
[01:06:32] the ISF. This team's already operating
[01:06:35] from a combined joint operations center
[01:06:37] that's going to be the headquarters for
[01:06:38] the entire ISF.
[01:06:40] As you can see on our map, our plan is
[01:06:42] for the ISF to be assigned in five
[01:06:44] different sectors. Each sector receiving
[01:06:47] one ISF brigade. In the short term, we
[01:06:50] plan to deploy to the Rafa sector first
[01:06:53] in addition to the training of police.
[01:06:55] Mid-term objective is to continue to
[01:06:57] expand sector by sector, all moving to
[01:07:00] our long-term 12,000 police and 20,000
[01:07:04] ISF soldiers. I'm incredibly pleased to
[01:07:08] announce today that the first five
[01:07:10] countries have committed troops to serve
[01:07:12] in the ISF. Indonesia,
[01:07:15] Morocco, Kazakhstan,
[01:07:18] Kosovo, and Albania, and two countries
[01:07:21] have committed to train police, Egypt
[01:07:24] and Jordan. I would also like to
[01:07:26] announce that I have offered and
[01:07:28] Indonesia has accepted the position of
[01:07:30] deputy commander for the ISF. With these
[01:07:33] first steps, we will help bring the
[01:07:36] security
[01:07:37] that Gaza needs for our future
[01:07:39] prosperity and enduring peace. Thank
[01:07:41] you.
[01:07:47] Thank you, Major General Mr. Tony Blair.
[01:07:50] >> For decades, Gaza's governance has been
[01:07:52] characterized by extremism, corruption,
[01:07:56] ineffective institutions, and the
[01:07:58] complete absence of a route to
[01:08:00] prosperity for the Gazan people. Yet, as
[01:08:03] President Trump recognized, its
[01:08:05] potential has always been vast. 25 miles
[01:08:08] of Mediterranean coastline, proximity to
[01:08:12] great regional and global markets, and a
[01:08:14] young dynamic population with a median
[01:08:16] age of 19. So today, we set out profound
[01:08:20] changes necessary to rebuild Gaza for
[01:08:23] Gazans. Gaza not as it was, but as it
[01:08:27] should be, including its governance.
[01:08:31] Effective public institutions serving
[01:08:33] the people, a business environment where
[01:08:35] enterprise flourishes, an education
[01:08:38] system educating the young for tolerance
[01:08:40] and achievement, and a tech enabled
[01:08:43] society making the most of the digital
[01:08:46] revolution.
[01:08:47] This is a vision of Gaza as part of a
[01:08:51] Middle East at peace. Not a phony piece
[01:08:54] of declarations no one means and
[01:08:56] agreements no one intends to keep, but a
[01:08:58] genuine commitment to a region where
[01:09:01] whether you're a Muslim, Jew, Christian
[01:09:03] of any faith or none, you can rise by
[01:09:06] your own efforts and feel your
[01:09:08] government by your side, not on your
[01:09:10] back. That is the vision behind
[01:09:13] President Trump's 20point plan for Gaza
[01:09:15] and it remains the best indeed the only
[01:09:19] hope for Gaza, the region and the wider
[01:09:22] world.
[01:09:28] >> Thank you, Mr. Yakir. Goodbye.
[01:09:32] >> Hello everybody. Thank you, Mr.
[01:09:34] President. Gaza is destroyed. We
[01:09:37] assembled here on this historic day with
[01:09:39] common vision to rebuild Gaza for the
[01:09:41] next generations. Our mission is to
[01:09:44] recycle and remove 70 million tons of
[01:09:46] rubble and UXO and hundreds of miles of
[01:09:49] of tunnels. Arrange for the population
[01:09:52] fast temporary housing in parallel to
[01:09:55] start construction of infrastructure and
[01:09:57] permanent housing. We have a detailed
[01:10:00] master plan for housing and
[01:10:01] infrastructure of modern schools and
[01:10:03] hospitals, manufacturing and
[01:10:05] agriculture, roads and trains, water and
[01:10:08] energy plants, logistic hubs, telecom
[01:10:10] tech and data centers, sports and
[01:10:13] leisure facilities, seapport and airport
[01:10:16] and much more. We lined up many regional
[01:10:19] contractors who build housing for
[01:10:20] millions of people in the Middle East.
[01:10:22] They will join the massive redevelopment
[01:10:25] with competitive pricing. The funding is
[01:10:27] ready and will be invested in a free
[01:10:30] economy. The local population will build
[01:10:32] their own cities which will create
[01:10:34] hundreds of thousands of jobs and will
[01:10:36] revive the economy. The Gaza coastline
[01:10:38] is 26 miles long. It can be developed as
[01:10:41] a new Mediterranean Riviera with 200
[01:10:43] hotels and potential islands. The value
[01:10:46] goes to the Gazans through the Gaza
[01:10:47] sovereign fund. This plan is all subject
[01:10:50] to a full disarmament of Hamas. Thank
[01:10:53] you very much. Together we will make
[01:10:55] this vision into a reality.
[01:11:02] >> Thank you Mr. Lyen Tanu Tan Men.
[01:11:06] When we asked the ENKAG what Gaza needs
[01:11:10] to unlock its potential. The answer was
[01:11:12] clear. Reconnect Gaza to the world
[01:11:15] digitally and economically and replace
[01:11:18] corruption with an open tax-free system.
[01:11:22] Gaza was once a vital trade hub between
[01:11:25] Asia and Europe. Reconnection is a
[01:11:28] return to its roots. Even the word Gaz
[01:11:31] comes from Gaza where silk was woven and
[01:11:34] exported to Europe. So we brought
[01:11:37] together Palestinian, Arab and American
[01:11:40] partners to deliver practical solutions.
[01:11:43] By July, Gaza's 2G network will be
[01:11:46] upgraded with free high-speed access to
[01:11:49] essential services. The ENAG is building
[01:11:52] a secure digital backbone, an open
[01:11:54] platform enabling e- payments, financial
[01:11:57] services, e-learning, and healthcare
[01:12:00] with user control over data. This effort
[01:12:03] is supported by our regional partners,
[01:12:06] and I believe you will hear some
[01:12:07] exciting news from them on that later
[01:12:09] today. In parallel, we're advancing an
[01:12:12] Amazon-like logistics system to help
[01:12:14] Palestinian launch businesses import
[01:12:16] globally, and trade securely. This will
[01:12:19] lower prices, drive growth, and help
[01:12:22] transform Gaza into an open,
[01:12:25] transparent, corruption-free economic
[01:12:27] zone. Thank you.
[01:12:29] >> Thank you,
[01:12:33] >> Mr. Mark Rowan.
[01:12:35] >> Mr. President, distinguished leaders,
[01:12:38] the goal is simple. Take the momentum
[01:12:41] all of you have provided
[01:12:44] and build it into something that is not
[01:12:46] just temporary relief, but something
[01:12:48] that provides a long-term foundation
[01:12:50] that will enable many of the goals we've
[01:12:52] spoken about today to be achieved. We
[01:12:55] plan to do this by gathering Gaza's
[01:12:57] productive assets in one unified
[01:13:00] structure. This will allow independent,
[01:13:03] professional, conflict-free management
[01:13:06] of the resources to benefit the Gazins.
[01:13:10] This will also enable expeditious
[01:13:12] planning and zoning and not fragmented
[01:13:16] projects that do not contribute to an
[01:13:18] economic hole.
[01:13:22] The potential here
[01:13:24] is tremendous, but it has to start
[01:13:27] somewhere. The start is in Rafa, where
[01:13:30] as you heard, that will be the first
[01:13:32] place security is deployed. The plan is
[01:13:35] 100,000 homes for 500,000 residents plus
[01:13:39] 5 billion of infrastructure. Over time,
[01:13:43] 400,000 homes for the entirety of the
[01:13:45] population with more than 30 billion of
[01:13:48] infrastructure. Let me put it in
[01:13:50] financial terms. This is not a a problem
[01:13:53] of money or collateral. This is a
[01:13:56] problem of peace. The coastline alone,
[01:14:00] $50 billion of value on a conservative
[01:14:02] basis. The housing stock, more than 30
[01:14:06] billion as rebuilt. The infrastructure,
[01:14:08] more than 30 billion. 115 billion of
[01:14:11] value. It just needs to be unlocked and
[01:14:14] financed.
[01:14:16] >> Great. Thank you,
[01:14:20] >> Mr. AJ Bangga.
[01:14:22] >> Thank you, Caroline, and thank you, Mr.
[01:14:23] President. Uh all this requires money
[01:14:26] and so when the UN uh security council
[01:14:29] resolution got passed we set about
[01:14:31] creating the Gaza reconstruction and
[01:14:34] development fund at the World Bank. It's
[01:14:36] housed there. The World Bank's role is
[01:14:38] that of a limited trustee. We manage the
[01:14:40] donor contributions coming in of type
[01:14:43] that the president said a little earlier
[01:14:45] in his opening remarks. And then we help
[01:14:47] to manage that money while it stays with
[01:14:48] us. and under the direction of the board
[01:14:51] of peace, we disperse the money for
[01:14:54] reconstruction and development projects
[01:14:56] in Gaza. This fund is ready to receive
[01:14:59] the donations that he spoke about just a
[01:15:01] little while ago. The second part of the
[01:15:04] story is that US donors deserve the
[01:15:07] right to know that the money is being
[01:15:08] used in a transparent way. We are
[01:15:11] helping along with the board of peace
[01:15:13] which takes the ownership of ensuring
[01:15:15] that the right kind of financial legal
[01:15:19] and oversight mechanisms are being put
[01:15:21] in place. We have even assigned a
[01:15:23] financial controller from the world bank
[01:15:25] on a seconment basis to the board of
[01:15:28] peace to ensure that we can try and help
[01:15:30] build the best standards in this
[01:15:32] process. Now this is just the beginning.
[01:15:35] This work is going to need two or three
[01:15:37] things that the World Bank Group can
[01:15:38] bring to the table. The first is
[01:15:41] leveraging of public finance. Because of
[01:15:43] our AAA rating, we have the ability to
[01:15:46] leverage private bond money to help to
[01:15:48] create the resources we need to do what
[01:15:50] Mark just talked about. The second is we
[01:15:53] can derisk private investing. And the
[01:15:56] third is we have people on the ground
[01:15:58] and expertise and knowledge of doing
[01:16:00] this kind of work in other markets. We
[01:16:02] want to be not an armchair critical
[01:16:05] process but an active participant in
[01:16:08] giving Gazans and people in the region
[01:16:10] the opportunity of the lives they
[01:16:12] deserve the one time we get the odds. So
[01:16:15] thank you again.
[01:16:21] >> Thank you all for your tremendous work.
[01:16:23] Before we turn it over to many of the
[01:16:25] distinguished leaders who are here
[01:16:26] today, we are going to hear from Mr.
[01:16:28] Kushner to talk about the future of the
[01:16:31] Board of Peace.
[01:16:36] Thank you, Caroline, and thank you, Mr.
[01:16:37] President, Mr. Vice President, Secretary
[01:16:39] Rubio. Um, we cannot change the past,
[01:16:42] but I think that what you're seeing
[01:16:43] today is that we can potentially change
[01:16:46] the future if we focus and do this in
[01:16:49] the right way. We tried to structure
[01:16:51] this meeting like a proper board meeting
[01:16:52] like we do in the private sector where
[01:16:54] we have all the preparation, we get the
[01:16:56] right people together and we really
[01:16:57] report on what our challenges are, what
[01:17:00] the opportunities are and what are the
[01:17:01] approaches. Um what you've seen today is
[01:17:03] just a small sample of the work that's
[01:17:06] been done and I really want to thank the
[01:17:07] entire team that's worked so hard at
[01:17:09] this. A lot of these people are
[01:17:10] volunteers. They're doing this not for
[01:17:12] any personal gain. People are not
[01:17:14] personally profiting from this. they are
[01:17:16] really doing this for their children and
[01:17:18] for their grandchildren and because they
[01:17:19] want to see peace. One small anecdote is
[01:17:23] Leon said to me, "Are you sure I should
[01:17:25] be presenting? I'm a Jewish Israeli and
[01:17:27] I'm working on Gaza and all these
[01:17:28] things." And I said, "That's exactly why
[01:17:29] you should be presenting today." Um, if
[01:17:32] Jews and Muslims work together, Israelis
[01:17:33] and Palestinians with Americans and and
[01:17:36] English and and Bulgarian and people
[01:17:38] from all around the world, uh, then we
[01:17:40] can kind of join on a common goal, which
[01:17:41] is peace and togetherness. And that's
[01:17:43] really what we've done. Uh, I want to
[01:17:45] thank President Trump. Uh, I remember,
[01:17:48] uh, working with you on your first
[01:17:49] foreign policy speech in 2016 that you
[01:17:51] gave at the Mayflower Hotel. And at the
[01:17:54] time, those ideas were considered to be
[01:17:55] very, very radical. What I saw as
[01:17:58] somebody who didn't have any foreign
[01:17:59] policy experience were just common sense
[01:18:01] ideas. Why can't the world be better?
[01:18:03] Why can't there be peace? Why can't
[01:18:04] there be more prosperity for all people
[01:18:06] in all ways? And I think over the last
[01:18:08] decade, you really have changed the way
[01:18:10] that the world thinks about a lot of
[01:18:11] these things. And I think that this
[01:18:13] organization is bringing a new approach
[01:18:15] and new ideas and new people together uh
[01:18:17] in order to affectuate it. I'd really
[01:18:19] like to thank all the countries that
[01:18:20] joined on very early. I I see this as a
[01:18:23] very uh self- selecting group of
[01:18:25] countries that uh really believe that
[01:18:27] the future can be different and wanted
[01:18:28] to join in partnership and put their
[01:18:30] reputations and their resources and
[01:18:31] their time and their ideas on the way to
[01:18:34] say these are the challenges we're
[01:18:35] putting into our that we're solving in
[01:18:36] our own countries. We want to come with
[01:18:38] new ideas because we've achieved success
[01:18:40] and we believe that the world can be
[01:18:42] better in that regard. So, uh I don't
[01:18:44] have to go through these slides in in in
[01:18:46] great detail, but we've uh secured today
[01:18:48] even without the president's, you know,
[01:18:50] amazing commitment over 7 billion. As
[01:18:53] Mark said, we don't really have a
[01:18:54] resource issue here, although we are
[01:18:55] going to need everyone's support. We
[01:18:57] just need to be executing and doing this
[01:18:58] in a good way. Uh we've dealt with the
[01:19:00] humanitarian issue. We've returned the
[01:19:02] hostages. But the one final thing I just
[01:19:04] want to talk about as well from our
[01:19:05] perspective is that um the the the
[01:19:08] President Trump in his heart wanted to
[01:19:10] get the hostages home. But he also
[01:19:12] really wanted to help the people of
[01:19:13] Gaza. He saw the suffering that they
[01:19:15] were enduring not through fault of their
[01:19:16] own because of the bad leadership that
[01:19:18] they had, the situation they were born
[01:19:19] into. Uh the war was a horrific horrific
[01:19:22] situation and I think through this
[01:19:23] process uh thanks to Ali and the
[01:19:26] committee uh we are now here to fully
[01:19:28] support the committee. We are help here
[01:19:29] to help the people of Gaza, to lift them
[01:19:31] up and give them every opportunity to
[01:19:33] succeed. And we really see this as a
[01:19:34] partnership with them uh and with the
[01:19:36] Israelis to see if we can create an
[01:19:38] environment that could be peaceful, that
[01:19:40] could be functional, that can offer
[01:19:41] people the opportunity to really live a
[01:19:43] better life. And I think you've seen
[01:19:44] some of the work today and uh and
[01:19:46] hopefully we'll be successful. Like I
[01:19:48] said the last one, you know, failure is
[01:19:49] not an option and we have to really push
[01:19:51] forward and and keep finding ways to
[01:19:53] succeed with this. So really thank you
[01:19:55] President Trump, Vice President Vance
[01:19:57] and Secretary Rubio uh and obviously
[01:19:59] Steve who's been like he said about me I
[01:20:01] feel just about him uh working through
[01:20:03] all these challenges has been an
[01:20:05] absolute honor and a pleasure with you
[01:20:07] and I've really um been been very lucky
[01:20:09] to have your partnership. So uh really
[01:20:11] thank you all and uh I'll give back to
[01:20:13] Caroline. Thank you.
[01:20:13] >> Thank you Jared.
[01:20:16] The war Hamas began has left
[01:20:22] The war Hamas began has left Gaza in
[01:20:25] ruins. Yet from these ruins, new future
[01:20:28] will rise.
[01:20:31] President Donald Trump unparalleled
[01:20:33] achievements in just few months. The
[01:20:36] United States together with key regional
[01:20:38] and global partners has signed the
[01:20:41] 20point Gaza Peace Plan, a blueprint for
[01:20:44] security, peace, and prosperity.
[01:20:48] All the hostages returned, the living
[01:20:50] ones to their homes, and the deceased to
[01:20:52] burial. Ceasefire is stable and the
[01:20:56] killings from both sides reduced by 99%.
[01:20:59] The United Nations Security Council
[01:21:01] approved the establishment of the Board
[01:21:03] of Peace chaired by President Donald
[01:21:04] Trump, a governing body dedicated to
[01:21:07] providing security, infrastructure, and
[01:21:10] homes for Gaza's people, ushering in the
[01:21:12] new dawn for Gaza.
[01:21:15] The new Palestinian technocratic
[01:21:17] government of Gaza, the NAGG, was
[01:21:19] elected with consent of all parties,
[01:21:22] including the Palestinian factions,
[01:21:24] Israel, and the Arab countries. Rafa
[01:21:26] border crossing with Egypt was open. The
[01:21:29] ENCAG will secure the disarmament of
[01:21:31] Gaza to ensure one authority, one law,
[01:21:34] and one weapon. The United States and
[01:21:37] its partners in coordination with the
[01:21:39] World Bank are pledging billions of
[01:21:41] dollars to rebuild Gaza. Safe areas are
[01:21:44] being established in Rafa and later
[01:21:46] across the Gaza Strip where families can
[01:21:49] receive shelter, food, health care, and
[01:21:52] education. In Rafa, Gazins will build
[01:21:54] their first new city. The Enag with the
[01:21:58] Board of Peace will expand development
[01:22:01] across the entire strip, employing
[01:22:04] hundreds of thousands in reconstruction
[01:22:06] and business activity. Transportation,
[01:22:09] water, and energy systems will be
[01:22:11] restored, and a modern economy will
[01:22:13] begin to emerge. Children will return to
[01:22:16] classrooms with a curriculum that
[01:22:18] promotes tolerance, dignity, and peace.
[01:22:21] Our goal by year three, Rafa fully
[01:22:24] rebuilt, unemployment curbed, and Gaza
[01:22:27] connected to the world through an
[01:22:29] Abrahamic gateway, linking it with
[01:22:31] Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the
[01:22:35] UAE, and extending to India and Europe.
[01:22:39] By year 10, Gaza will be self-governed,
[01:22:42] integrated into the region with thriving
[01:22:44] industries and housing for all. This is
[01:22:47] the framework for Gaza's rebirth.
[01:22:50] secure, prosperous and peaceful.
[01:23:02] It's amazing. Now, we will hear from our
[01:23:05] distinguished leaders who are here
[01:23:07] today, beginning with the king of the
[01:23:09] kingdom of Bahrain.
[01:23:11] >> You're welcome,
[01:23:13] >> President Trump. Distinguished
[01:23:17] members
[01:23:20] of the board of peace,
[01:23:23] it is an honor to participate in this
[01:23:25] inaugural
[01:23:27] meeting of board convened by President
[01:23:29] Donald Trump.
[01:23:32] I take this opportunity to extend my
[01:23:34] heartfelt
[01:23:36] congratulations on this worthy and
[01:23:40] timely initiative.
[01:23:42] The meeting comes during the holy month
[01:23:45] of Ramadan where we will pray to
[01:23:49] Almighty God that our endeavors will
[01:23:52] bring peace, security, prosperity to the
[01:23:55] world.
[01:23:57] As a founding member of the board of
[01:23:59] peace, the kingdom of Bahrain recognizes
[01:24:02] and endorses the tremendous potential of
[01:24:05] this body, the extraordinary drive of
[01:24:09] its chairman and his sincere efforts to
[01:24:13] unify nations in our common objectives
[01:24:17] of fostering and enduring peace for the
[01:24:20] Middle East. We greatly appreciate
[01:24:22] President Trump initiative
[01:24:25] and presenting the Gaza peace plan and
[01:24:29] establishing this board as a vital
[01:24:32] platform for dialogue, action, and
[01:24:35] delivery.
[01:24:37] As we embark on this historic journey
[01:24:40] together,
[01:24:41] we urge all peaceloving nations
[01:24:44] organization
[01:24:45] and groups to actively engage in the
[01:24:49] successful implementation
[01:24:52] of the second phase of the Gaza peace
[01:24:55] plan. This includes ensuring a lasting
[01:24:58] ceasefire in Gaza, facilitating
[01:25:02] its reconstruction
[01:25:05] and providing hope and new opportunities
[01:25:09] for the people of Palestine and Israel.
[01:25:13] This inaugural meeting of the board of
[01:25:16] peace marks an extraordinary and pivotal
[01:25:19] chance to envision a new future
[01:25:22] together. one that emerges from the
[01:25:25] ruins of conflict to building a
[01:25:28] landscape of security, aspiration, hope
[01:25:32] and opportunity for its people and
[01:25:34] reaffirming our commitment to this
[01:25:36] vision. The Kingdom of Bahin has
[01:25:39] contributed the funds towards the
[01:25:42] operations and administration
[01:25:44] of the Board of Peace. And today we
[01:25:47] announce our readiness to provide the
[01:25:50] necessary infrastructure
[01:25:52] and skills to establish an effective
[01:25:55] government digital services platform
[01:25:59] for Gaza.
[01:26:01] Our
[01:26:03] decision
[01:26:04] to join the Ibraham Accord and enter
[01:26:08] into the CCBA agreement with the United
[01:26:12] States reflects our commitment to
[01:26:15] advancing peace and stability in the
[01:26:18] Middle East.
[01:26:19] The United States historic and ongoing
[01:26:22] presence in our region has served as a
[01:26:25] positive force for stability
[01:26:28] and we remain dedicated to strengthening
[01:26:31] our partnership. We look forward with
[01:26:35] optimism to working with the board of
[01:26:38] peace and all of our international
[01:26:40] partners who share our ambitions for a
[01:26:44] brighter future for all. Thank you, Mr.
[01:26:47] President.
[01:26:53] Next, the President of the Republic of
[01:26:55] Kazakhstan.
[01:26:58] Dear Mr. President, ladies and
[01:27:00] gentlemen,
[01:27:02] our meeting here at the Donald Trump US
[01:27:07] Institute of Peace comes at a moment
[01:27:10] when decisive and pragmatic actions
[01:27:14] matter most. In fact, it's about making
[01:27:19] durable peace through practical target
[01:27:23] oriented measures, but not through
[01:27:26] endless conferences with wishful
[01:27:30] resolutions. Mr. President, your clear
[01:27:33] vision and far-sighted approach to
[01:27:37] promoting global peace and stability has
[01:27:40] inspired my country to join the border
[01:27:44] of peace. The board of peace is widely
[01:27:47] expected to respond directly to new
[01:27:51] realities by reinforcing existing
[01:27:55] multilateral efforts. The world has
[01:27:58] never seen a move like this. It is
[01:28:02] absolutely unprecedented
[01:28:04] because in essence peace through
[01:28:07] construction is a very innovative
[01:28:10] concept or project and it has every
[01:28:14] chance to become a reality by our joint
[01:28:19] efforts. Therefore, Mr. President, I
[01:28:22] acknowledge and accept your conviction
[01:28:26] that lasting peace must be built on
[01:28:29] concrete actions. As our first step, we
[01:28:34] are ready to contribute a significant
[01:28:38] amount of cash finance
[01:28:41] directly to the board of peace without
[01:28:43] any delay. Kalistthani is also keen to
[01:28:48] be part of the restoration and
[01:28:50] construction process through
[01:28:53] international
[01:28:55] companies with strong credentials. The
[01:28:58] program mostly funded by our government
[01:29:03] may include the construction of
[01:29:05] infrastructure, housing, residential
[01:29:08] complexes, schools, hospitals, and other
[01:29:12] important civilian facilities as well as
[01:29:15] the rubble clearings. We pledge to fully
[01:29:20] accomplish our financial commitment
[01:29:23] toward the to the board. As one of the
[01:29:26] world's major producers of wheat,
[01:29:29] Kazakhstan is ready to provide
[01:29:32] humanitarian assistance to enhance food
[01:29:35] security in Gaza and beyond.
[01:29:39] Kastan plans to provide 500 scholarships
[01:29:43] to Palestinian students to pursue
[01:29:46] academic programs in our universities
[01:29:50] over a fiveyear period. We can share our
[01:29:55] internationally recognized egovernment
[01:29:58] expertise and other digital solutions.
[01:30:02] Kazan is willing to support the ISF by
[01:30:07] deploying military
[01:30:11] units including uh medical units and
[01:30:15] sending our observers to the civil civil
[01:30:19] military coordination center.
[01:30:21] Sustainable development in the Middle
[01:30:23] East requires new ways to promote peace,
[01:30:27] cooperation and trust across the region.
[01:30:30] That's why Kazakhstan has joined the
[01:30:33] Abraham airs. This crucial move is fully
[01:30:38] aligned with the noble mission of the
[01:30:40] board of peace. Both of them may
[01:30:44] constitute a solid basis for joint
[01:30:47] efforts to promote peace and security in
[01:30:50] the Middle East and to foster economic
[01:30:54] humanitarian cooperation in the region
[01:30:57] and even beyond.
[01:31:00] Given the global nature of the board's
[01:31:02] agenda, Kazakhstan is committed to
[01:31:05] providing practical support, including
[01:31:08] through hosting meetings at different
[01:31:12] levels and scales.
[01:31:15] I also would like to propose to
[01:31:17] establish a special President Trump's
[01:31:21] award of the board of peace to recognize
[01:31:24] his outstanding
[01:31:26] peaceuilding
[01:31:28] efforts and achievements. I'm confident,
[01:31:31] Mr. President, that under your strong
[01:31:34] leadership, the B of peace will
[01:31:37] successfully deliver its great noble
[01:31:41] mission. Thank you.
[01:31:47] Next, the president of the Republic of
[01:31:49] Usbekiststan.
[01:32:02] Donald Trump.
[01:32:27] for
[01:32:35] mechanis.
[01:33:07] Donald Trump.
[01:33:39] the President of the Republic of
[01:33:41] Indonesia.
[01:33:48] President Trump, distinguished
[01:33:50] delegates,
[01:33:52] Indonesia,
[01:33:54] from the first day that we studied
[01:33:59] President Trump's 20point plan, we
[01:34:05] completely agree and we are fully
[01:34:07] committed to this plan and that is why
[01:34:13] we joined the board of peace. We are
[01:34:17] committed to its success.
[01:34:19] We know there will be lot of obstacles.
[01:34:22] There will be lot of difficulties. But
[01:34:25] we are very optimistic. With the
[01:34:28] leadership of President Trump,
[01:34:31] this vision of real peace will be
[01:34:34] achieved. There will be problems, but we
[01:34:39] will prevail. we will achieve our dream
[01:34:45] of peace in Palestine. Peace, a lasting
[01:34:49] and peaceful solution for the
[01:34:52] Palestinian problem and in Gaza. The
[01:34:56] achievements of the ceasefire is real.
[01:34:59] Uh we commend this and therefore we
[01:35:02] reaffirm our commitment to contribute
[01:35:05] significant numbers of troops up to
[01:35:09] 8,000 or more if necessary. Uh uh we are
[01:35:13] prepared to uh contribute the troops to
[01:35:16] take part actively in the international
[01:35:20] stabilization force to uh make this
[01:35:23] peace work. Thank you very much.
[01:35:31] the president of Romania.
[01:35:35] >> First of all, President Trump, thank you
[01:35:37] for convening this very important
[01:35:40] meeting and uh thank you for your
[01:35:43] involvement and leadership for the peace
[01:35:46] plan in Gaza.
[01:35:48] a peace plan that have been uh
[01:35:51] comprehensive and stable and also for
[01:35:54] your efforts and results
[01:35:57] in other parts of the world.
[01:36:00] I think everyone
[01:36:03] desire peace, stability, prosperity in
[01:36:07] uh in Gaza. But uh the question is how
[01:36:10] to act for and it's why this meeting is
[01:36:14] and this format it's uh important.
[01:36:17] what Romania can do first on the
[01:36:20] humanitarian situation. We can increase
[01:36:23] the number of flight in order to extract
[01:36:26] children with disease and to treat in
[01:36:29] Romanian hospitals. We done already and
[01:36:31] we can do for a thousand children and
[01:36:33] 4,000 family members.
[01:36:36] Secondly, we had a good expertise in
[01:36:40] emergency response system like
[01:36:43] ambulance, fire systems and we can uh
[01:36:46] help in order to to rebuild that system
[01:36:49] and we can donate some infra some uh
[01:36:52] equipment. served. We already offering
[01:36:55] some scholarship for Palestinian
[01:36:57] students and we can extend the program
[01:37:00] and we can help also to rebuild
[01:37:02] refurbish uh the schools in in Gaza and
[01:37:07] force I think the most important we had
[01:37:10] also some expertise we can help to
[01:37:14] rebuild the institutions like police
[01:37:17] like justice like public administration
[01:37:21] have done that in other parts of the
[01:37:23] world. So we have some expertise we can
[01:37:25] contribute with experts with trainers
[01:37:29] and uh also it's important to say that
[01:37:32] we have traditionally good relation with
[01:37:34] the Jewish people and with the
[01:37:37] Palestinian people so it will help. So
[01:37:39] we can count on us.
[01:37:42] >> Thank you
[01:37:45] >> the prime minister of the republic of
[01:37:48] Albania.
[01:37:51] Thank you for inviting me to be part of
[01:37:54] this journey, Mr. President.
[01:37:57] The fully aligned bipartisan vote of
[01:38:00] support this initiative received in our
[01:38:03] parliament speaks for itself about how
[01:38:07] honored Albania is to be a founding
[01:38:08] member of this new organization.
[01:38:12] Many in Europe say the Board of Peace is
[01:38:15] meant to substitute the United Nations.
[01:38:19] It does not look to me like an attempt
[01:38:20] to replace the UN, but if it helps shake
[01:38:25] that agonizing giant and inshallah wake
[01:38:29] it up, then God bless the Board of
[01:38:32] Peace.
[01:38:33] Mr. President, we commend
[01:38:40] we commend your decisive role in
[01:38:43] bringing a halt to the heartbreaking
[01:38:45] conflict in Gaza. and Albania has
[01:38:47] confirmed its participation in the
[01:38:49] stabilization force with our troops. At
[01:38:53] the same time, I propose that this board
[01:38:57] invite all countries to contribute
[01:39:00] directly by building a dedicated public
[01:39:04] facility for Palestinian children.
[01:39:08] And in doing so, the world would help
[01:39:11] the children of Gaza, who are the most
[01:39:14] innocent hostages of the lunacy of
[01:39:19] Hamas.
[01:39:22] grow within sorry to grow within the
[01:39:26] tangible presence of the largest chain
[01:39:28] of hands humanity has ever joined
[01:39:31] together
[01:39:33] by not only putting the money but
[01:39:36] bringing their own architects in this so
[01:39:40] the world can will transform of history
[01:39:42] into an oysis of hope where compassion
[01:39:46] takes concrete form and the future is
[01:39:48] shaped around those who deserve it most
[01:39:51] the next generations s of Palestinians.
[01:39:54] Albania would be privileged to stand in
[01:39:56] that chain. Allow me very briefly to
[01:39:59] draw your attention to another open
[01:40:01] conflict closer to home where President
[01:40:04] Trump's leadership during his first term
[01:40:08] brought Kosovo and Serbia closer than
[01:40:11] ever to a final peace agreement.
[01:40:16] The president of Kosovo was then
[01:40:18] brutally prevented from traveling to the
[01:40:20] White House to sign that agreement in
[01:40:23] the presence of President Trump.
[01:40:26] And this was the doing of the very same
[01:40:30] prosecutor that went after President
[01:40:34] Trump himself and for that became
[01:40:37] worldwide famous.
[01:40:40] Today the cost of a president
[01:40:43] have now spent six years in pre-trial
[01:40:46] detention before a special court in the
[01:40:49] hake sponsored by several democratic
[01:40:52] states some of them present here that
[01:40:55] should be shamed of that type of
[01:40:58] international justice.
[01:41:01] Just last week Mr. president. Another
[01:41:04] prosecutor founded by this great country
[01:41:07] and its taxpayers requested 45 years of
[01:41:11] imprisonment for him. A request that
[01:41:14] sent shockwave of humiliation through an
[01:41:17] entire peace-seeking nation. At this
[01:41:20] moment, only a few months stand between
[01:41:23] a man who rose from resistance to ethnic
[01:41:26] cleansing to become a peacemaker and the
[01:41:30] potentially devastated outcome in a
[01:41:32] court that has so far failed at every
[01:41:36] step to uphold the standards of
[01:41:39] democratic justice. For the sake of God,
[01:41:42] Mr. President, let's do something
[01:41:46] before, as you say, very bad things
[01:41:50] might happen again. And again, thank you
[01:41:54] so much for including Albania in this
[01:41:57] noble initiative by bringing close
[01:42:00] friends of Israel and of the Arab
[01:42:03] countries. We very much hope to be an
[01:42:06] added value in your amazing vision.
[01:42:16] Next, the Prime Minister of Egypt.
[01:42:21] Your Excellency President Donald Trump,
[01:42:23] distinguished participants, I thank
[01:42:25] President Trump for convening this
[01:42:27] meeting. His Excellency's direct
[01:42:29] involvement and commitment to promoting
[01:42:31] peace in the region has been
[01:42:33] instrumental in achieving an end to the
[01:42:36] conflict in Gaza, which was previously
[01:42:38] considered unattainable. Egypt support
[01:42:41] President Trump's vision to usher in a
[01:42:44] new era of peace and coexistence among
[01:42:47] the people of the region in which the
[01:42:49] Palestinian people enjoy the rights to
[01:42:51] self-determination and statethood in
[01:42:54] accordance to relevant international
[01:42:56] resolutions. Egypt also appreciates pre
[01:42:59] President Trump's firm position on
[01:43:02] rejecting the annexation of the West
[01:43:04] Bank. Egypt supports the mandate of the
[01:43:07] board of peace as a principal framework
[01:43:10] for governing that the transitional
[01:43:12] period in Gaza. It is necessary to fully
[01:43:15] empower the national committee for the
[01:43:18] administration of Gaza to function
[01:43:20] effectively from within and throughout
[01:43:22] the strip. Also preserving the
[01:43:25] institutional and geographical link
[01:43:28] between the West Bank and Gaza is vital
[01:43:30] for the Palestinian Authority to
[01:43:32] eventually resume its role in Gaza.
[01:43:35] Within the framework of Egypt support to
[01:43:38] President Trump's plan, Egypt will
[01:43:40] continue its effort to train Palestinian
[01:43:42] police personnel to maintain security
[01:43:45] within the strip. Egypt value President
[01:43:48] Trump's position rejecting the
[01:43:50] deportation of the Palestinian people
[01:43:52] from Gaza as reflected in the 20 points
[01:43:54] plan and stresses the importance of
[01:43:58] initiating early recovery project in the
[01:44:01] whole of the strip in a manner that
[01:44:03] preserve its geographic unity. Let us
[01:44:07] consider today meeting as initial step
[01:44:09] in advancing these objectives. Again,
[01:44:12] thank you your excellency President
[01:44:14] Trump.
[01:44:16] Thank you.
[01:44:19] >> The Prime Minister of the State of
[01:44:21] Qatar.
[01:44:25] Thank you, Mr. President. Distinguished
[01:44:28] members of the Board of Peace. Thank you
[01:44:30] for convening this meeting under the
[01:44:32] banner of peace. Qatar reaffirms its
[01:44:35] commitment to the Board of Peace as it
[01:44:38] was committed to the very first day of
[01:44:41] the mediation efforts. From that day
[01:44:44] until the end when we have witnessed in
[01:44:47] that historical moment in Shermash the
[01:44:50] signing of this agreement together with
[01:44:52] our partners.
[01:44:54] For decades this conflict has burdened
[01:44:56] our region and the world and our
[01:45:00] responsibility remains to achieve a just
[01:45:02] and lasting resolution. The board under
[01:45:04] the President Trump leadership will
[01:45:07] advance the full implementation of the
[01:45:09] 20 points plan without delay ensuring
[01:45:12] fairness and justice for both
[01:45:14] Palestinians and Israelis. In this
[01:45:16] spirit, Qatar pledges $1 billion in
[01:45:19] support to the board of to a board
[01:45:22] mission aimed at reaching a final
[01:45:24] resolution that fulfills Palestinian
[01:45:26] aspiration for for the statehood and
[01:45:28] recognition and the Israeli aspiration
[01:45:31] for security and integration. We will
[01:45:33] all we will we will also continue our
[01:45:36] humanitarian coordination together with
[01:45:38] our UN partners and the board of peace.
[01:45:41] Thank you very much.
[01:45:42] >> Thank you
[01:45:45] the deputy prime minister and foreign
[01:45:48] minister of the UAE
[01:45:52] >> Mr. President. Thank you for gathering
[01:45:54] us today. Um I really hope that the
[01:45:58] beginning of Ramadan will give us all
[01:46:00] guidance uh towards peace um coexistence
[01:46:05] and living in prosperity with each
[01:46:08] other. Mr. President,
[01:46:12] just over 5 years ago, you with your
[01:46:16] friend, my president, Sheh Muhammad, and
[01:46:19] the Prime Minister of Israel launched
[01:46:21] the Abrahamic Accords.
[01:46:24] And since then, we've managed not only
[01:46:27] to work with you, with Israel towards a
[01:46:32] better future for the region, but even
[01:46:34] when October 7th took place, the UAE
[01:46:37] managed to work with Israel in providing
[01:46:41] since the war started almost $3 billion
[01:46:45] of assistance to the Palestinian people
[01:46:47] in Gaza.
[01:46:49] Today, Mr. President, the UAE announces
[01:46:52] a further $1.2 2 billion for supporting
[01:46:56] Gaza through the Board of Peace, which
[01:46:59] I'm delighted that I've been working
[01:47:02] with so many friends
[01:47:05] like Steve and Jared, Secretary Rubio,
[01:47:10] who's been uh so inspiring in so many
[01:47:13] other ways on so many other fronts.
[01:47:16] Looking forward working with him for
[01:47:19] uh in the future. And Mr. President, if
[01:47:22] it wasn't for your support, I think uh
[01:47:25] this board would not have been gathered.
[01:47:27] We would not have had the meeting in New
[01:47:31] York to end this war when you gathered
[01:47:34] eight leaders of the region to end this
[01:47:37] war. So, Mr. President, during Ramadan,
[01:47:40] we pray for your success. Thank you.
[01:47:45] >> Thank you.
[01:47:47] the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the
[01:47:49] Kingdom of Morocco.
[01:47:51] >> Thank you, Mr. President.
[01:47:55] His Majesty King Muhammad the 6th
[01:47:58] welcomes and supports your vision and
[01:48:01] leadership to foster peace and
[01:48:03] prosperity around the world and in
[01:48:06] particular in the Middle East.
[01:48:09] Thanks to your peace plan for Gaza, a
[01:48:12] ceasefire was achieved, a tragic war was
[01:48:15] ended, lives were saved, and the
[01:48:19] pragmatic and forwardlooking approach to
[01:48:22] rebuild Gaza was crafted. Today, as a
[01:48:27] committed founding member of the board
[01:48:29] of peace and open instructions of his
[01:48:31] majesty King Muhammad V 6th, Morocco is
[01:48:35] pledging the following in honor of the
[01:48:38] President Trump's visionary peacemaking.
[01:48:42] One, Morocco has already made the first
[01:48:45] ever financial contribution to the port
[01:48:47] of peace. Two, Morocco is ready to
[01:48:50] deploy police officers and train
[01:48:53] policemen from Gaza. Three, Morocco will
[01:48:57] deploy a high ranking military officers
[01:49:00] to ISF Joint Military Command. Four,
[01:49:04] Morocco will deploy a military field
[01:49:07] hospital. Five, Morocco is ready to lead
[01:49:11] a dradicalization program to fight hate
[01:49:14] speech and promote tolerance and
[01:49:17] coexistence.
[01:49:18] To conclude, allow me, Mr. President, to
[01:49:21] briefly highlight four elements.
[01:49:23] The conditions set in phase two of the
[01:49:26] 20 your 20 point plan should be met for
[01:49:30] the success of our action.
[01:49:33] Preserving stability in the West Bank is
[01:49:35] crucial. The Palestinian ownership is
[01:49:39] important through legitimate
[01:49:41] institutions. Lastly, you are, Mr.
[01:49:44] President, the only leader able to bring
[01:49:46] peace to the Middle East. We hope that
[01:49:49] the stabilization of Gaza will help
[01:49:52] launch in a global and genuine peace
[01:49:54] process based on the two street
[01:49:56] solution. Thank you.
[01:49:59] >> Thank you.
[01:50:01] The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the
[01:50:03] Republic of Turkey,
[01:50:07] >> Mr. President, distinguished
[01:50:09] participants,
[01:50:10] after two years of immense suffering,
[01:50:13] ceasefire in Gaza has been achieved
[01:50:15] thanks to President Trump's personal
[01:50:17] engagement and our collective efforts.
[01:50:20] Yet, the humanitarian situation remains
[01:50:23] fragile and ceasefire violations
[01:50:26] continue to occur. A prompt,
[01:50:29] coordinated, and effective response is
[01:50:31] therefore essential.
[01:50:34] President Erdan remains fully committed
[01:50:36] to Gaza's security, stabilization, and
[01:50:39] recovery. Turkey has already been
[01:50:42] providing immense amount of humanitarian
[01:50:45] assistance to Gaza.
[01:50:48] We can also contribute meaningfully to
[01:50:50] the rehabilitation of health and
[01:50:52] education sectors as well as the
[01:50:54] training of the police force. In
[01:50:57] addition, we are prepared to provide
[01:50:59] troops to the international
[01:51:01] stabilization force. Mr. President,
[01:51:04] Turkey will continue to support your
[01:51:06] efforts towards a just and lasting
[01:51:09] peace. We remain convinced that the
[01:51:11] foundation of such peace is the
[01:51:14] two-state solution. Let us work towards
[01:51:16] that objective for the benefit of all
[01:51:19] peoples of the region. Thank you.
[01:51:25] >> The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the
[01:51:27] State of Kuwait.
[01:51:29] >> I'll be delivering my statement in
[01:51:30] Arabic.
[01:51:33] Donald Trump.
[01:51:59] Donald Trump.
[01:52:13] foreign.
[01:52:22] These are all
[01:52:44] Donald Trump.
[01:53:19] Thank you. The Minister of State for
[01:53:22] Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi
[01:53:24] Arabia.
[01:53:25] >> Thank you, um, Mr. President,
[01:53:27] distinguished members of the board,
[01:53:29] distinguished guests. Uh it is a
[01:53:32] pleasure to be here with you as we uh
[01:53:34] embark on a journey towards establishing
[01:53:36] a lasting and just peace in the Middle
[01:53:39] East. A peace that results in two
[01:53:41] states, Israel and Palestine, living
[01:53:43] side by side in peace and security. A
[01:53:46] peace that results in transforming our
[01:53:49] region from death and destruction to
[01:53:52] hope and prosperity uh by integrating
[01:53:55] the region, bringing together its
[01:53:56] resources and unleashing its potential.
[01:54:00] The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Mr.
[01:54:01] President, has been seeking peace and
[01:54:04] justice in the Middle East since uh for
[01:54:06] a very long time. In 1981, King Fraad
[01:54:09] offered the eight-point plan which was
[01:54:12] adopted by the Arab world at the summit
[01:54:14] in Fez that essentially established or
[01:54:17] reconfirmed the notion of land for
[01:54:18] peace. In 2002, Saudi Arabia, the late
[01:54:22] King Abdullah launched the Arab peace
[01:54:23] initiative which was adopted by the Arab
[01:54:25] world unanimously as well as by the
[01:54:28] Islamic world. Today uh the custodian of
[01:54:31] the holy mosque, King Salman biniz and
[01:54:34] his royal highness crown prince prime
[01:54:36] minister Muhammad bin Salman are working
[01:54:38] towards realizing a vision for peace and
[01:54:41] prosperity and security and integration
[01:54:44] in our region. So Mr. President, we look
[01:54:46] forward to working with the Board of
[01:54:48] Peace to establish this noble objective
[01:54:51] and I'm pleased to announce that King
[01:54:52] Mr. Adri will pledge1 billion dollars
[01:54:54] over the next few years in order to uh
[01:54:58] achieve this objective to work towards
[01:55:00] alleviating the suffering of our
[01:55:02] Palestinian brothers and uh bring them
[01:55:04] the peace that they and the whole region
[01:55:08] uh so desperately desires. So, thank you
[01:55:10] very much and good luck to all of us.
[01:55:19] I know there were a few more leaders who
[01:55:21] wanted to quickly share a few words. So
[01:55:23] we will go to the president of the
[01:55:25] Argentine Republic MLE
[01:55:34] of peace.
[01:55:58] International.
[01:56:25] Argentina
[01:56:37] Trump.
[01:56:58] Force International
[01:57:25] Trump.
[01:57:38] much.
[01:57:44] >> Thank you. The Prime Minister of
[01:57:47] Hungary, Mr. Orban.
[01:57:50] >> Dear Mr. President, excellencies, dear
[01:57:52] colleagues, uh first of all, let me
[01:57:55] express the appreciation of the
[01:57:57] Hungarian people to President Trump for
[01:57:59] his tireless peace efforts all around
[01:58:01] the world. Hungary is the only country
[01:58:04] to be represented here on the highest
[01:58:07] level among the founding members from
[01:58:10] the European Union.
[01:58:12] I represent a country which has been
[01:58:15] living in the neighborhood of a brutal
[01:58:17] war for the last four years.
[01:58:20] We all know this war would not have
[01:58:23] broken out if President Trump had been
[01:58:26] in office at that time. However,
[01:58:29] President Trump's return to office
[01:58:33] to multiply the peace efforts not only
[01:58:35] in Gaza but in Ukraine as well.
[01:58:39] We in Europe understand clearly that the
[01:58:42] security situation in Middle East and
[01:58:45] especially in Gaza has a significant
[01:58:47] impact on the security of Europe.
[01:58:51] Therefore, our participation in the bord
[01:58:53] of peace is not only based on principle
[01:58:56] but also on our own security interest.
[01:59:00] Let me also share with you that there is
[01:59:04] serious talks going on in Europe about
[01:59:08] the boat of peace and its future role.
[01:59:11] We understand that during the recent
[01:59:13] decades, international organizations
[01:59:17] have failed to fulfill their role to
[01:59:20] preserve peace and stability worldwide.
[01:59:23] Therefore, new initiatives are needed to
[01:59:26] bring forward the issue of peace
[01:59:28] globally. We are sure that President
[01:59:30] Trump's initiative to establish the
[01:59:33] board of peace is such a step to the
[01:59:36] right direction. President, we are proud
[01:59:38] to be among the founding members and we
[01:59:41] are happy to be in such a great company.
[01:59:43] Thank you very much.
[01:59:44] >> Thank you.
[01:59:48] President Pena of Paraguay who tapped my
[01:59:51] shoulder wants to say a few words.
[01:59:52] >> Yes. Thank you, Carlen. Thank you,
[01:59:54] President Trump. Thank you for bringing
[01:59:56] hope again, President Trump. I think
[01:59:58] that of the many things that you have
[02:00:00] achieved in the last 12 months as
[02:00:02] president of the US, I think the the
[02:00:04] greatest thing and and I talk I'm
[02:00:07] probably the youngest head of state here
[02:00:09] is hope. President, we have lost hope
[02:00:12] about solving problems for many many
[02:00:15] decades. Uh a system that was broken, a
[02:00:18] system that was not able to bring
[02:00:19] solutions. Now we're seeing that thanks
[02:00:22] from your leadership, we are solving the
[02:00:25] issues. I come from a country that 160
[02:00:27] years ago faced extinction. We went to a
[02:00:31] war against our neighbor and we lost 60%
[02:00:34] of our territory and 90% of the male
[02:00:37] population. So we we know on our own
[02:00:41] flesh the hardship and and all the
[02:00:43] difficulties of war. That's why Parawa
[02:00:46] is so proud to be a founding member of
[02:00:48] the B of peace and we're here to
[02:00:50] collaborate. Maybe we are not going to
[02:00:53] be the country that's going to bring the
[02:00:54] more money or the more security forces,
[02:00:58] but I think that there's a lot that all
[02:01:00] of the countries can bring to the table
[02:01:03] to to solve these issues. Parawide
[02:01:05] together with a handful of countries
[02:01:07] have been supporting Israel and we will
[02:01:09] continue to do so. But we come here with
[02:01:12] an open heart to work for peace and
[02:01:16] today is Gaza. Tomorrow will be another
[02:01:19] conflict area in the world. that we need
[02:01:21] to solve each of all these conflicts and
[02:01:24] I really appreciate the leadership that
[02:01:26] you have taken. President Paragay stand
[02:01:29] ready to collaborate next to you. We're
[02:01:31] going to continue to support the US
[02:01:34] initiative. Probably the only day that
[02:01:36] we're not going to be able to support uh
[02:01:38] the USA is going to be on June 12th
[02:01:41] because Paraga is going to be facing the
[02:01:43] US in the World Cup. Thank you very
[02:01:45] much.
[02:01:47] >> Thank you.
[02:01:50] the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the
[02:01:52] State of Israel. Please.
[02:01:54] >> Thank you, President Trump. This is an
[02:01:57] important day. Your historic actions
[02:02:01] have proven time and again.
[02:02:04] You are a leader who takes initiative,
[02:02:06] forge new paths, and works toward a
[02:02:09] better future for the entire world.
[02:02:12] your visionary leadership alongside
[02:02:16] with Prime Minister Netanyahu's resolve
[02:02:18] brought all our hostages home from Gaza.
[02:02:21] Thank you for that.
[02:02:23] I'm proud to represent here the state of
[02:02:26] Israel that stood through such a
[02:02:28] difficult war for two years on seven
[02:02:31] different fronts demonstrating
[02:02:34] resilience and strength.
[02:02:37] As I stand here, I recall the 925 brave
[02:02:40] soldiers that gave their lives in a war
[02:02:43] against pure evil. Hamas, Islamic Jihad,
[02:02:47] and Hisba.
[02:02:49] These are the best people.
[02:02:52] To them, we owe our existence and all
[02:02:55] our achievements. They will not be
[02:02:58] forgotten. I think of them and their
[02:03:01] families who paid the heaviest price.
[02:03:04] Since Hamas violently took over Gaza in
[02:03:08] 2007, it built the largest terror state
[02:03:12] in the world with huge terror
[02:03:14] infrastructure
[02:03:16] above and below ground. October 7 was
[02:03:20] the peak of Hamas ongoing terror
[02:03:23] campaign through decades.
[02:03:27] Hamas raped and murdered women, killed
[02:03:30] children in front of their parents and
[02:03:32] parents in front of their children,
[02:03:34] burned whole families alive.
[02:03:37] That terrible day will not be forgotten
[02:03:40] and we must act to ensure it never
[02:03:43] repeats itself. Distinguished leaders,
[02:03:47] our previous plans for Gaza failed
[02:03:50] because they never addressed the core
[02:03:52] issues: terror, hate, incitement, and
[02:03:57] indoctrination.
[02:03:59] At the heart of President Trump's
[02:04:01] comprehensive plan are the disarmment of
[02:04:03] Hamas and Islamic Jihad,
[02:04:05] demilitarization of Gaza Strip, and
[02:04:08] dradicalization of Palestinian society
[02:04:11] there. It's the first plan to address
[02:04:14] the root of the problem.
[02:04:17] We support it and are working and will
[02:04:20] work toward its success. As Mr.
[02:04:24] Maladanov emphasized, Hamas must be
[02:04:27] disarmed. That includes all its weapons,
[02:04:30] its terror infrastructure, underground
[02:04:32] tunnel network, and weapons production
[02:04:35] facilities must all be dismantled.
[02:04:41] As the plan emphasize, there must be a
[02:04:44] fundamental dericalization process. The
[02:04:47] infrastructure that indoctrinates
[02:04:49] Palestinian children to hate and kill
[02:04:51] Jews in educational and religious
[02:04:54] institutes should no longer exist.
[02:04:59] All those are important not only for the
[02:05:03] Israelis. Gazans have lived under a
[02:05:07] terror regime for decades.
[02:05:10] The people of Gaza must be liberated
[02:05:13] from these terrorists.
[02:05:16] I want to make this opportunity to wish
[02:05:18] Muslims around the world Ramadan Karim.
[02:05:23] Distinguished leaders, President Trump's
[02:05:25] visionary leadership creates for the
[02:05:27] first time an opportunity for a better
[02:05:30] future. On behalf of Israel, I say thank
[02:05:34] you, Mr. Trump. Thank you for your
[02:05:37] leadership.
[02:05:42] Thank you. Lastly, the prime minister of
[02:05:45] Pakistan,
[02:05:53] your excellency, President Donald J.
[02:05:56] Trump,
[02:05:57] members of the Board of Peace,
[02:06:00] distinguished guest, ladies and
[02:06:02] gentlemen,
[02:06:04] assalamu alaikum and a very good
[02:06:05] morning. Next,
[02:06:07] >> it's a great honor, Mr. President, to
[02:06:09] attend this inaugural
[02:06:12] board of peace meeting
[02:06:14] in this holy month of Ramadan. And may
[02:06:18] God
[02:06:20] reward you and make you successful in
[02:06:23] your efforts to bring lasting peace in
[02:06:29] Gaza. Mr. President, we deeply
[02:06:33] appreciate your unique initiative
[02:06:37] and your dynamic leadership in advancing
[02:06:41] peaceful solutions to conflicts across
[02:06:45] the globe. Your bold diplomacy has
[02:06:49] surely brought calm to many
[02:06:52] international
[02:06:53] serious hotspots.
[02:06:56] your timely and very effective
[02:06:59] intervention
[02:07:00] to achieve ceasefire between India and
[02:07:04] Pakistan
[02:07:07] potentially averted
[02:07:10] loss of tens of millions of people.
[02:07:14] You have truly proved to be a man of
[02:07:16] peace and let me say Mr. President you
[02:07:20] are truly savior of South Asia.
[02:07:25] The people of Palestine have long
[02:07:27] endured
[02:07:28] illegal occupation and immense
[02:07:31] suffering.
[02:07:32] And to achieve
[02:07:36] longlasting peace, it is very important
[02:07:38] that ceasefire violation must end. To
[02:07:42] preserve lives and advance
[02:07:44] reconstruction efforts.
[02:07:48] The people of Palestine must exercise
[02:07:51] full control of their land and their
[02:07:54] future in line with UN Security Council
[02:07:58] resolutions.
[02:08:00] Mr. present. We must work together
[02:08:03] towards a credible pathway to
[02:08:05] Palestinian self-determination
[02:08:08] through the establishment of an
[02:08:10] independent, sovereign, and contiguous
[02:08:13] state of Palestine in line with the
[02:08:16] relevant resolutions.
[02:08:19] Mr. President, we hope that under your
[02:08:22] visionary and dynamic leadership, we
[02:08:25] will ensure a just and lasting
[02:08:28] resolution to the issue of Palestine.
[02:08:32] And today is a day which will mark a
[02:08:36] place in the annals of history that
[02:08:39] through your efforts, through your
[02:08:41] untaring
[02:08:42] support and great efforts,
[02:08:47] longlasting peace in
[02:08:50] Gaza will be achieved will be your
[02:08:54] legacy for all time to come. Thank you.
[02:09:01] Thank you. We will now hear from the
[02:09:03] president of FIFA, Giovani, uh to share
[02:09:06] more about FIFA's new partnership with
[02:09:08] the board of peace.
[02:09:10] >> Thank you. Thank you, Caroline. Dear
[02:09:13] president, distinguished distinguished
[02:09:15] leaders, dear friends, I just have three
[02:09:18] quick points I want to mention now.
[02:09:20] Football, that's the first point.
[02:09:22] football or soccer as it is called here
[02:09:25] is the world's universal language. It is
[02:09:28] spoken by six billion people, six
[02:09:31] billion fans who have the same feelings.
[02:09:34] It's about hope. It's about joy. It's
[02:09:36] about happiness. It's about coming
[02:09:38] together and it's about uniting the
[02:09:40] world. Mr. President, we will unite the
[02:09:42] world here this summer uh during the
[02:09:45] World Cup. But if we truly want to unite
[02:09:47] the world, we need peace, of course. And
[02:09:51] this brings me to the second point
[02:09:53] because uh today we announce a true
[02:09:56] partnership between the board of peace
[02:09:59] and FIFA and I'm very proud and very
[02:10:01] happy to announce this after having
[02:10:04] heard your presentations in Davos. Uh uh
[02:10:08] I was feeling that we need to help. We
[02:10:11] need to do something. Everyone has to
[02:10:14] support peace. Everyone in this room,
[02:10:15] Mr. President, everyone outside of this
[02:10:17] room who would like to be in this room
[02:10:19] has to support peace as well. We all
[02:10:22] have to contribute uh for this and
[02:10:25] that's why FIFA wants to contribute
[02:10:27] because we don't have to just rebuild
[02:10:29] houses or schools or hospital or roads.
[02:10:32] We also have to rebuild and build
[02:10:35] people, emotion, hope and trust. And
[02:10:38] this is what football my sport is about.
[02:10:42] And the third point is that of course as
[02:10:45] you all know images speak louder and
[02:10:49] better than words. So we prepared a
[02:10:51] short video and you can watch this
[02:10:55] video. I invite you to look at it
[02:10:57] carefully. Thank you very much. God
[02:10:59] bless peace and God bless the board of
[02:11:02] peace. Ramadan Kharim. Thank you.
[02:11:11] In a world where conflict has silenced
[02:11:13] playgrounds and broken routines, there
[02:11:16] is one language that still unites
[02:11:18] hearts.
[02:11:20] Football.
[02:11:26] A simple ball, a shared field, a reason
[02:11:30] to believe again.
[02:11:33] Today, FIFA and the Board of Peace come
[02:11:35] together to turn football into a bridge
[02:11:38] toward peace, dignity, and hope.
[02:11:44] Through this partnership, a complete
[02:11:46] football ecosystem will be created. FIFA
[02:11:49] and the Board of Peace will build
[02:11:50] football pitches, FIFA arenas,
[02:11:54] and stadiums. This initiative will
[02:11:56] support the creation of leagues at
[02:11:57] youth, amateur, and regional level,
[02:12:00] strengthening community engagement both
[02:12:02] on and off the pitch. It will also
[02:12:04] generate diverse professional
[02:12:06] opportunities, supporting the
[02:12:08] development of local talent, not only on
[02:12:10] the field, but across all areas that
[02:12:12] bring football to life.
[02:12:15] Football does more than create players
[02:12:18] and coaches. It rebuilds confidence,
[02:12:20] restores routine, reopens doors to
[02:12:23] education, teamwork, and belonging.
[02:12:26] Local communities take the lead.
[02:12:28] Parents, teachers, volunteers, youth
[02:12:31] leaders, all becoming part of a shared
[02:12:34] mission to heal, to rebuild, to move
[02:12:37] forward together.
[02:12:39] Around every pitch, new emotions and
[02:12:42] longlasting memories emerge. Community
[02:12:44] matches, fan gatherings, youth education
[02:12:47] and sport programs. New job
[02:12:49] opportunities appear to become coaches,
[02:12:52] players, sport doctors, administrators,
[02:12:54] events organizers.
[02:12:56] We will create football ecosystem with
[02:12:59] thousands of people to be involved and
[02:13:01] engaged constantly.
[02:13:03] Together, FIFA and the Board of Peace
[02:13:05] will build in Gaza 50 FIFA Arena mini
[02:13:09] pitches with a cost of around $50,000
[02:13:12] per unit. This represents a $2.5 million
[02:13:16] investment. Five full-size pitches in
[02:13:18] five different districts at around $1
[02:13:21] million US per pitch. A FIFA Academy
[02:13:24] with an estimated investment of $15
[02:13:26] million US. And a national stadium for
[02:13:29] 20,000 to 25,000 spectators valued at
[02:13:33] around $50 million.
[02:13:36] These investments will create a complete
[02:13:38] football ecosystem
[02:13:41] designed to support communities and
[02:13:43] future generations. FIFA and the Board
[02:13:45] of Peace, united for football, committed
[02:13:48] to peace.
[02:13:57] Thank you, Giani. That's wonderful. In
[02:13:59] advance of today's meeting, members of
[02:14:01] the board of peace were asked to vote on
[02:14:03] a resolution establishing the principles
[02:14:05] of financial integrity and transparency
[02:14:08] that will guide the board's work. And
[02:14:10] that resolution has passed unanimously.
[02:14:13] So now, President Trump as chairman of
[02:14:15] the board will sign the resolution in
[02:14:17] the presence of a quorum of the board.
[02:15:02] Now, while this is not a fundraiser, the
[02:15:04] Board of Peace has already inspired
[02:15:06] remarkable support from so many on this
[02:15:09] stage. As President Trump announced
[02:15:11] earlier, total pledges exceed $6.5
[02:15:14] billion dollars in relief and rebuilding
[02:15:16] in Gaza. And thousands of personnel have
[02:15:19] been committed to help preserve the
[02:15:20] ceasefire and secure enduring peace. I
[02:15:23] would like to ask the heads of the
[02:15:25] following delegations to join President
[02:15:27] Trump on stage as he signs the
[02:15:29] fundraising pledges. Albania,
[02:15:32] Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Egypt, Indonesia,
[02:15:36] Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kuwait,
[02:15:39] Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE,
[02:15:43] and Usbekistsan. Please join the
[02:15:45] president as he signs the fundraising
[02:15:47] pledges.
[02:16:16] You'll go this way.
[02:16:28] Hello.
[02:16:44] Hold that.
[02:16:47] Sure.
[02:17:00] >> All right.
[02:17:07] Congratulations.
[02:17:16] Now, President Trump, if you would like
[02:17:18] to say a few words to conclude and then
[02:17:19] you have the honor of ging out the first
[02:17:22] ever Board of Peace meeting.
[02:17:24] >> Well, thank you very much, Caroline. And
[02:17:26] I will say that this has been uh I think
[02:17:28] will maybe be one of, if not the most
[02:17:32] important day of our careers. and we've
[02:17:35] had some pretty good careers up here,
[02:17:37] but this is something very special. And
[02:17:39] we're going to straighten out Gaza.
[02:17:40] We're gonna make Gaza very successful
[02:17:42] and safe. And we're also going to maybe
[02:17:45] take it a step further where we see hot
[02:17:47] spots around the world. We can probably
[02:17:49] do that very easily. Uh this is a
[02:17:51] tremendous group of powerful people and
[02:17:54] brilliant people. And I think that we
[02:17:56] can do things that a lot of other people
[02:17:58] would not be able to even conceive of or
[02:18:00] think of. Uh we will help Gaza. We will
[02:18:05] straighten it out. We will make it
[02:18:06] successful. We will make it peaceful.
[02:18:08] And we will do things like that in other
[02:18:11] spots. Spots will come up. Things will
[02:18:14] happen that nobody's even thinking about
[02:18:15] now and not even conceivable. But uh we
[02:18:19] will take care of a lot of things and
[02:18:21] we'll work again with the United Nations
[02:18:23] and bring it back to health. It needs
[02:18:26] help. It's got tremendous potential, but
[02:18:28] it needs a lot of help. And I think we
[02:18:31] can start with doing that pretty soon.
[02:18:33] Michael, I think we're going to work on
[02:18:34] that very strongly. We can fix up even
[02:18:37] the building physically. I love to see
[02:18:39] beautiful buildings. I like to see
[02:18:41] buildings fixed up physically, not look
[02:18:44] uh like they are in disrepair. We don't
[02:18:47] like that. So, we're going to do a job
[02:18:50] with the United Nations. We're going to
[02:18:51] have some very good people, and you have
[02:18:53] some very good people there right now,
[02:18:54] but we're going to put some extra people
[02:18:57] in and we're going to have it uh help
[02:18:59] us. But most importantly for today, the
[02:19:01] border of peace is going to lead the way
[02:19:03] in Gaza. We're going to make Gaza a an
[02:19:06] example of success and safety and unity.
[02:19:10] And it's an honor that you're here. And
[02:19:12] I want to thank the media for being so
[02:19:14] respectful. You're really amazing. It's
[02:19:17] given the border peace the respect it
[02:19:19] deserves. These are the most powerful
[02:19:21] people in the world. They're the richest
[02:19:23] people in the world through their
[02:19:24] countries and uh they have made a
[02:19:27] tremendous commitment and the United
[02:19:29] States likewise has made a tremendous
[02:19:32] commitment. Thank you to everybody for
[02:19:34] your involvement and uh we look forward
[02:19:37] to working with you over the years for
[02:19:39] many many reasons, many very very good
[02:19:42] humanitarian reasons. Thank you all.
[02:19:44] Thank you very much. Thank you.
[02:19:46] >> Thank you.
[02:19:49] Thank you everybody.
[02:19:53] >> Ready?
[02:19:57] >> Thank you.
[02:19:59] Thank you everybody. That's great.
[02:20:30] There's no need to feel
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