• Gathering will also be attended by heads of international and regional organizations

ISTANBUL

Egypt will host an international peace summit in the Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday, co-chaired by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and his US counterpart Donald Trump.

According to the official Egyptian News Agency, leaders and officials from 27 countries will take part in the summit.

The list includes:

• Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi – Host
• US President Donald Trump
• Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
• Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani
• Jordan’s King Abdullah II
• Kuwait’s Prime Minister Ahmad Al Abdullah Al Sabah
• Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
• Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
• Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto
• Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, who already arrived in Egypt to attend the summit
• French President Emmanuel Macron
• German Chancellor Friedrich Merz
• British Prime Minister Keir Starmer
• Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni
• Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez
• Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis
• Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan
• Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
• Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif
• Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney
• Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store
• Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani
• United Arab Emirates Vice President Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan
• Omani Foreign Minister Badr Al Busaidi
• Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishanka
• Japan’s Ambassador to Egypt Masaki Noke
• Greek Cypriot Administration leader Nikos Christodoulides

The summit will also be attended by heads of various international and regional organizations

• UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
• European Council President Antonio Costa
• Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that no Israeli officials will take part in the summit.

Egypt said the summit in Sharm el-Sheikh aims “to end the war in the Gaza Strip, enhance efforts to bring peace and stability to the Middle East, and usher in a new phase of regional security and stability.”

Trump announced last Wednesday that Israel and Hamas had agreed to phase one of his 20-point plan to secure a Gaza ceasefire and release all Israeli captives in exchange for about 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. The plan’s second phase envisions a new governing body in Gaza without Hamas, the formation of a multinational force, and Hamas’ disarmament.

Since October 2023, Israeli attacks have killed over 67,600 Palestinians in the enclave, most of them women and children, and rendered it largely uninhabitable.