{"id":312658,"date":"2026-02-02T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=312658"},"modified":"2026-01-29T07:35:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T07:35:45","slug":"portugal-will-only-join-trumps-peace-council-under-certain-conditions-says-foreign-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/02\/portugal-will-only-join-trumps-peace-council-under-certain-conditions-says-foreign-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal Will only Join Trump\u2019s \u2018Peace Council\u2019 under Certain Conditions, Says Foreign Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_312659\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Paulo-Rangel-Portugals-Foreign-Minister.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-312659\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-312659\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Paulo-Rangel-Portugals-Foreign-Minister-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Paulo-Rangel-Portugals-Foreign-Minister-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Paulo-Rangel-Portugals-Foreign-Minister.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-312659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paulo Rangel Portugal&#8217;s Foreign Minister<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>27 Jan 2026\u00a0<\/em>&#8211;\u00a0Portugal will only join the Peace Council created by the US president if the organisation\u2019s remit is strictly limited to the Israeli\u2013Palestinian conflict, Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel said today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u2018Board of Peace\u2019 is entirely acceptable if it is confined to Gaza,\u201d Rangel stated while speaking at a conference on the \u201cFuture of European Security\u201d at the Gulbenkian Foundation, in Lisbon.<\/p>\n<p>The body \u201cwas proposed by the United States specifically for the Israeli\u2013Palestinian conflict, and we would like it to remain limited to that,\u201d he added, noting that this position is shared by other countries, including Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Formally established last Thursday, the Peace Council was announced as an organisation intended to implement Washington\u2019s plan to bring an end to the war in the Gaza Strip. However, the founding treaty sets out a far broader mandate, presenting the body as an alternative to the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Chaired by Donald Trump, the Peace Council has sent invitations to several countries, including Portugal, with the cost of a permanent seat reportedly set at one billion dollars (\u20ac854.3 million).<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <\/em>LUSA<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/algarvedailynews.com\/news\/26488-portugal-will-only-join-trumps-peace-council-under-certain-conditions-says-foreign-minister\" >Go to Original &#8211; algarvedailynews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>27 Jan 2026\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Portugal will only join the Peace Council created by the US president if the organisation\u2019s remit is strictly limited to the Israeli\u2013Palestinian conflict, Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel said today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":312659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225],"tags":[3843,87,865,1126,1050,88,427,249,70,3524,1160],"class_list":["post-312658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spotlight","tag-board-of-peace","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-hegemony","tag-imperialism","tag-israel","tag-palestine","tag-trump","tag-usa","tag-utopia","tag-world-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312660,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312658\/revisions\/312660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}