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Moscow, Russia: Russian President Vladimir Putin has been invited to join US President Donald Trump's "Board of Peace" aimed at resolving conflicts globally and oversee governance and reconstruction in Gaza, the Kremlin said Monday.
Moscow for years tried to balance relations with all major players in the Middle East -- including Israel and the Palestinians.
"President Putin also received an invitation to join this Board of Peace," spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists, including AFP.
Russia was seeking to "clarify all the nuances" of the offer with Washington, he said, without adding if the Kremlin chief as inclined to join.
The White House has reached out to various figures around the world to sit on the so-called "Board of Peace", chaired by the US president himself.
"He's really doing a lot to resolve these complex crises, which have lasted for years, even decades," Putin said last October.
Referring to the situation in the Middle East, Putin said: "If we succeed in achieving everything Donald has strived for... it will be a historic event."
