U.S. President Donald Trump said in his speech at the first meeting of the Peace Council that Norway had offered to host the next meeting of the new council. However, Norway’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Espen Barth Eide, rejected this in a comment to NRK. Norway is not even a member of the Peace Council, but had sent a representative to the meeting in Washington, D.C. on this occasion. “Norway has clearly communicated that we will not become a member of the Board of Peace, and that position remains unchanged,” Espen Barth Eide said. —TV2