00:00Peace initiatives. Today we're announcing more details regarding the Board of Peace. So important.
00:06This board has the chance to be one of the most consequential bodies ever created.
00:11And it's my enormous honor to serve as its chairman. I was very honored when they asked me to do it.
00:17We had an idea to do it and then they came. They said, you be the chairman.
00:20And but I take it very seriously. We have a great group of people and incredible young people that are leading it from within.
00:34It's running beautifully started already. And every country, just about every country wants to be a part of it.
00:41And we just sent out the letters a couple of days ago. And these are just the countries that are here.
00:47They happen to be in Davos. So we said, would be honored if you wanted to join us up on the stage.
00:55And it's really great. They're friends of mine. I think. Let me see.
01:01Yeah, every one of them is a friend of mine. A couple, a couple, let's see, a couple I like, a couple I don't like.
01:09No, I like actually this group. I like every single one of them. Can you believe it?
01:13Usually I have about two or three that I can't stand. Usually I have two or three that I don't like.
01:18I don't find them up here. I like every one of these people.
01:21No, they're great people. They're great leaders. And the Board of Peace is composed of leaders, the top leaders in the world, actually.
01:30Last October, we released a plan for the permanent end to the conflict in Gaza.
01:35And I'm pleased to say that our vision was unanimously adopted by the United Nations Security Council late last year.
01:44Under phase one of this plan, we have painstakingly maintained that Gaza, and we're going to have it very strongly.
01:51And it's what we have maintained the Gaza ceasefire, delivered record levels of humanitarian aid.
01:58We've given aid. You know, you used to hear all the people were starving, and it was terrible.
02:03Now we have. You don't hear that anymore. We've delivered record levels of humanitarian aid.
02:09I want to thank the United States, but I want to thank some of the countries, some of the countries that are sitting right up here,
02:14because they've sent great aid, great aid also in the form of money, where we go out and purchase food.
02:22And you don't hear those stories anymore with people starving, and secured the release of all 20.
02:28You know, we secured the release of all 20 living hostages.
02:33Now I want to thank Steve Whitcoff and Jared and everybody for doing and working so hard.
02:37They worked so hard, but there were 20 remaining living hostages.
02:42Now we got hundreds out, but the last 20, I said, boy, that's going to be a tough one.
02:47I said that a year before, and it was a tough one, but we got them.
02:51Got all 20, every one of them.
02:54And we had also about 28 that were dead, but the parents wanted them just as though they were living, just as much.
03:04Some cases it almost seemed more.
03:06It was amazing, actually, the love.
03:08But their boy had been killed, in just about all cases, young men.
03:17Their baby, their boy had been killed, and they wanted the body of their boy, and it looked like it couldn't be done.
03:24And with the exception of one, and we're close on the track of that, we've got them all, every single one of them, which is amazing.
03:33It's a rough job.
03:34That was a rough job.
03:35And I've been very clear that Hamas must return that last remaining deceased hostage as well, and that will be the full commitment.
03:47And then we get on to other things, and we're committed to ensuring Gaza is demilitarized, properly governed, and beautifully rebuilt.
03:56It's going to be a great plan, and that's where the Board of Peace really started.
04:00And I think we can spread out to other things as we succeed with Gaza nations.
04:05You know, I've always said the United Nations has got tremendous potential, has not used it.
04:12But there's tremendous potential in the United Nations, and you have some great people at the United Nations, but so far it hasn't.
04:21You know, on the eight wars that I ended, I never spoke to the United Nations about any of them.
04:27And you would think that I should have.
04:30You would think they could have done those eight wars, but they couldn't have, and they tried, I guess, in some of them.
04:35But they didn't try hard enough.
04:37But there's tremendous potential with the United Nations, and I think the combination of the Board of Peace with the kind of people we have here,
04:45coupled with the United Nations can be something very unique for the world.
04:50It's for the world.
04:51This isn't United States.
04:52This is for the world.
04:54As everyone can see today, the first steps toward a brighter day for the Middle East and a much safer future for the world are unfolding right before your very eyes.
05:02Together, we are in a position to have an incredible chance.
05:08I don't even call it a chance.
05:10I think it's going to happen.
05:11To end decades of suffering, stop generations of hatred and bloodshed, and forge a beautiful, everlasting, and glorious peace for that region and for the whole region of the world.
05:24Because I'm calling the world a region.
05:26The world is a region.
05:28We're going to have peace in the world.
05:29And, boy, would that be a great legacy for all of us.
05:32Everybody in this room is a star.
05:35Well, you wouldn't be here.
05:37There's a reason that you're here.
05:39And you're all stars.
05:41You're the biggest people, the most important people in the world, most powerful people in the world.
05:45And when you use that genius that you have, that very unusual, very inspired genius, when you use that for peace, the opposite of peace has no chance.
05:59So I just want to say it's tremendous to be with you.
06:02And I think this is something that we're doing that's very important.
06:06This is the most important.
06:08I was so looking forward to being here.
06:11And yesterday was a tremendous success.
06:13A lot of good things happened.
06:14But this was something that I really wanted to be here and do.
06:18And I could think of no better place because so many people were together.
06:21And now to bring the Board of Peace into full force, I ask Sheikh Issa of Bahrain and Foreign Minister Barita of Morocco to join me in signing and ratifying the Board of Peace charter.
06:38Thank you very much, everybody.
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