World Economic Forum Day 3 LIVE: Trump to host ceremony in Davos to announce contours of ‘Board of Peace’

President Donald Trump talks to media after a meeting about Greenland during the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 21, 2026.
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U.S. President Donald Trump is set to host a ceremony on the margins of the annual World Economic Forum in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos on Thursday (January 22, 2026) to announce the broad contours of the “Board of Peace” and its charter. 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.

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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)

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