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• Kazakh, Uzbek leaders ready to join; Moscow weighs ‘nuances’ • Starmer pledges UK support for Gaza reconstruction efforts • Israeli minister issues ‘us or them’ ultimatum to Netanyahu MOSCOW: The White House on Monday extended invitations to leaders from Russia, Poland and Israel to join a so-called “Board of Peace” which aims to address global conflicts and manage governance and reconstruction efforts in Gaza. While others weigh participation, Central Asian leaders moved quickly to accept. The press secretaries of Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev confirmed their leaders’ readiness to join the board. Both leaders have been courted by Trump, who invited them to the G20 summit in Miami. Meanwhile, the Kremlin said on Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin received an invitation to join the board, which would be chaired by Trump. “President Putin also received an invitation to join this Board of Peace,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists...

US President Donald Trump’s government has asked countries to pay $1 billion for a permanent spot on his “Board of Peace” aimed at resolving conflicts, according to US media reports. The White House has asked various world leaders to sit on the board, chaired by Trump himself, including Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Hungarian Premier Viktor Orban and Canada’s Mark Carney. Member countries — represented on the board by their head of state — would be allowed to join for three years, or longer if they contributed more than $1 billion within the first year, according to Bloomberg, which first reported the sum. “Each member state shall serve a term of no more than three years from this charter’s entry into force, subject to renewal by the chairman,” stated the board’s draft charter obtained by Bloomberg and other media. “The three-year membership term shall not apply to member states that contribute more than USD $1,000,000,000 in cash funds to the Board of Peace within the first...

Pitched as a temporary solution to replace Hamas in Gaza, the members of Donald Trump's Board of Peace are being announced this week. But the Palestinians who would actually live under its governance in Gaza dismiss the initiative as a U.S.-led effort to control Gaza from outside

ISLAMABAD - The United States has formally invited Pakistan to join President Donald Trump’s proposed “Board of Peace on Gaza” as Washington advances the next phase of its diplomatic initiative aimed at stabilising the war-ravaged Palestinian territory, the Foreign Office said yesterday.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has been invited to be a part of the Gaza “Board of Peace” that is being formed by United States President Donald Trump, the Foreign Office has said. “The prime minister of Pakistan has received the invitation from the president of the United States to join the Board of Peace on Gaza,” said FO spokesperson Tahir Andrabi in response to media queries. “Pakistan will remain engaged with international efforts for peace and security in Gaza, leading to a lasting solution to the Palestine issue in accordance with United Nations resolutions,” he added. The so-called “Board of Peace” has begun to take shape as the US moves on to the second phase of Trump’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza, which stands decimated after two years of Israel’s bombardment. Trump had already declared himself the chair of the body, as he promotes a controversial vision of economic development in the Palestinian territory. The United States has invited the heads of around 60 states to join the Board of Peace, including those...

US President Donald Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace” for post-war Gaza began to take shape on Saturday, with the leaders of Egypt, Turkiye, Argentina and Canada asked to join. The announcements from those leaders came after the US president named his Secretary of State Marco Rubio, former British prime minister Tony Blair, and senior negotiators Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff to the panel. Trump had already declared himself the chair of the body, as he promotes a controversial vision of economic development in the Palestinian territory, which lies in rubble after two-plus years of relentless Israeli bombardment. The moves came after a Palestinian committee of technocrats meant to govern Gaza held its first meeting in Cairo which was attended by Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law who has partnered with Witkoff for months on the issue. In Canada, a senior aide to Prime Minister Mark Carney said he intended to accept Trump’s invitation, while in Turkiye, a spokesman for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he had bee...

A Western diplomat told Haaretz that his country fears the move would create a UN-like mechanism lacking international legal backing, while Arab states prefer the Board of Peace to focus on Gaza, as initially agreed at the end of the Israel-Hamas war

Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) on Friday notified the Bucharest Stock Exchange that the members of the Board of Nominees had selected a preferred candidate for the position of Fund’s manager replacing Franklin Templeton of two candidates found together with selection adviser Deutsche Numis.

Romanian state-run natural gas producer and supplier Romgaz (stock symbol: SNG) has appointed Dumitru Chisalita as new Chairman of the Board of Directors, effective April 16, according to a notification sent to the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB).

Andrei Stamatian, CEO of Republic of Moldova’s EnergBank, has received approval from Romania’s central bank to become a member of the Board of Directors of Libra Bank, replacing entrepreneur Siminel Andrei, who retired in the fall of 2024, Libra Bank said in a report to the Bucharest Stock Exchange on Wednesday.

Electricity supplier and distributor Electrica (stock symbol: EL) has announced in a stock market report that its Board of Directors appointed Mihai Diaconu to the position of Board Chairman, from February 1, 2025 until December 31, 2025.

Adebayo Ogunlesi Joins OpenAI’s Board of Directors

Rompetrol Well Services (stock symbol: PTR), one of the leading wellbore special services companies in Romania, announced on Sept 30 the decision of the company's Board of Directors to appoint Pavel Romanenko as interim member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Board of Directors, starting October 1.

Zico Kolter Joins OpenAI’s Board of Directors We’re strengthening our governance with expertise in AI safety and alignment. Zico will also join the Safety & Security Committee

In an interview with Zarkerak.am, Chairman of the Board of Armeconombank Saribek Sukiasyan talked about his path, successful business formula and the Bank. -Would you briefly describe Saribek Sukiasyan's life? - We are four brothers in our family, and we grew up in one of Yerevan neighborhoods where the environment was quite harsh. To keep us away from trouble, our father drew us into work from childhood and so instilled in us the aspiration of creating value. Me and my brothers experienced both the difficulty and the joy of earning money when we were still 12-13 years old. At that age, the day for me started as early as at 6 in the morning, that is we would get up 3 hours before school to go to the factory for work. So there were five men in our family, and in this regard, my father's words are with me to this day: “With 10 working hands in the family, earning a living should never be a problem”. My father was a creative, fair, and highly respected person, and despite the only 5-grade education he had, peopl...

Nakasone brings cybersecurity experience to growing Board of Directors; will join the Board’s Safety and Security Committee

Discussing the challenges and opportunities for European gas transmission operators, regional gas markets, interconnection agreements, and the expansion of the Vertical Gas Corridor initiative, we sat down with Szabolcs I. Ferencz, Chairman of the Board & CEO at FGSZ Földgázszállító Zrt.

Slovakia's Ministry of Economy, as the sole shareholder of state-owned energy supplier SPP, has appointed a new Board of Directors.

Giovanni Luca Soma, the chairman of the Board of Directors of BRD-SocGen (BRD.RO), the third largest bank in Romania, has decided to withdraw from this position and from the Board of Directors, the lender announced in a report to the Bucharest Stock Exchange.

The shareholders of the national gas transmission company Transgaz (TGN.RO) convened in ordinary general meeting on October 11 and approved, among others, the appointment of Ilinca von Derenthall as a provisional member of the Board of Administration.