Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum on January 22, 2026. Photo credits: X/@ZelenskyyUa

Mr. Trump signed the charter of the “Board of Peace,” which he has billed as a body for resolving international conflicts, with other founding members in Davos on Thursday (January 22, 2026). U.S. officials, during the launch, presented their vision for a “New Gaza” that would turn the shattered Palestinian territory into a glitzy resort of skyscrapers by the sea, a project that could start emerging in three years.

The countries which have accepted Trump’s invitation are Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Egypt, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Pakistan, UAE and Vietnam. A number of countries, including China, Germany, Italy, Paraguay, Russia, Slovenia, Turkiye and Ukraine, have remained non-committal on the invitation.

After meeting U.S. President Donald Trump met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) held in Davos, Mr. Zelenskyy slammed Europe’s response to the U.S.-Greenland dispute. ““Instead of taking the lead in ‌defending freedom ‌worldwide, especially when America’s focus ‍shifts elsewhere, Europe looks lost trying ‍to convince the U.S. President to change,” Mr. Zelenskyy said in a fiery speech.

Zelenskyy ⁠said the meetings would take ‌place on ‌Friday (January 23) and Saturday (January 24), speaking ‍after he gave ‍an address at the World Economic Forum in the ⁠Swiss Alpine resort Davos. . 

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Mr. Trump’s quest to take control of Greenland, which he said was needed for national and international security, dominated his address to the World Economic Forum as he returned for the first time in six years. “It’s the United States alone that can protect this giant mass of land, this giant piece of ice,” Mr. Trump told a packed audience of global political and business leaders in the Swiss ski resort who queued for more than an hour to listen.

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Earlier in the day, Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that producing massive large language models (LLMs) did not necessarily give countries a geopolitical “edge” and that the return on the massive investments being made in AI technologies would go to countries that were able to deploy them profitably.

(With inputs from agencies)