Cambodia's Prime Minister announces the country's membership in the Peace Council

Cambodia has accepted US President Donald Trump's invitation to join the Peace Council. This was announced on January 26 by the country's Prime Minister Hun Manet.

"Joining the Council demonstrates Cambodia's goodwill and strong commitment to global peace," Manet said in a social media post.

The Peace Council is an intergovernmental organization, the creation of which was initiated by Trump as part of the peace plan in the Gaza Strip, approved by the UN Security Council in November 2025.

By a subtle calculation: the countries of the Middle East supported the "Peace Council"

While Europe is hostile to the American leader's initiative, his Muslim allies are joining it.

Earlier, on January 21, political analyst Vladimir Olenchenko said that Western leaders refused to participate in Trump's "Peace Council" because they did not want to formalize Washington's dominance. According to him, it is assumed that the American leader himself will be the chairman of the "Peace Council", and this is a legal formalization of US dominance, which was not the case before.

It was noted that Azerbaijan, Argentina, Bahrain, Belarus, Hungary, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Israel, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Egypt had previously agreed to the initiative to join the council.

The Financial Times newspaper, in turn, reported that most of the EU countries rejected the invitation of the US president to join the "Peace Council". According to the publication, Europe fears that the "Peace Council" will be able to sideline the UN as a platform for resolving global conflicts in the future.

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