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Mexico Declines Trump's Invitation to Join Board of Peace: Tuesday's Mañanera Recapped
Mexico rejects BoP membership due to Palestine’s exclusion but may send a UN ambassador as observer, stressing the need for both Israel and Palestine to participate.
- On Tuesday, February 17, 2026, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Mexico declined Donald Trump's invitation to join the Board of Peace and communicated this decision to the United States.
- Because the process excludes Palestine, Mexico turned down the offer since it recognizes Palestine as a state and Sheinbaum stressed both Israel and Palestine's participation is important.
- The inaugural meeting in Washington, D.C., will include Israel and countries such as Argentina, Hungary, Indonesia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates.
- Attending only in observer capacity, Mexico's ambassador to the United Nations will probably go, Sheinbaum said.
- The White House positioned the BoP as essential to fulfilling all 20 points of Trump's Gaza plan, while Marcelo Ebrard announced deepening economic ties with Canada after meeting Dominic LeBlanc on Monday.
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced her refusal to join the “Peace Council” initiated by the United States.
Mexico has declined the invitation of the President of the United States to join the Peace Board, the entity created by Donald Trump to oversee the end of the war in Gaza as an alternative to the UN. President Claudia Sheinbaum explained this Tuesday at a press conference that her government will send an observer to the first meeting of the club next Thursday, which will be attended by allies of the Republican’s international right-wing like Jav…
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Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum announced Tuesday that Mexico will not join the Washington-backed Peace Council that will oversee the next phase of the Gaza peace plan, but assured that it will act as an observer of the process. Sheinbaum said during her morning press conference that a formal letter was sent rejecting the invitation extended late last month by the Trump administration for Mexico to join the Gaza Peace…
The Mexican president said Mexico will participate in this meeting only as an observer and her representative will be the ambassador to the UN, Héctor Vasconcelos
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