President Donald Trump inaugurated his newly created Board of Peace with a handful of founding members but offered few details about its mandate and how teh panel will work or might pursue efforts to end global conflicts.
Watch the event in the video player above.
Trump hailed the board as “something very, very unique for the world.”
Speaking at a ceremony to sign the board’s charter, Trump said it could work with the United Nations to resolve wars not only in the Middle East, where the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza was the genesis of the concept.
But he did not provide specifics about how the board would cooperate with the U.N.
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A number of countries,many of them close U.S. allies, have expressed concerns Trump might want the board to supplant or rival the U.N. and have either refused to sign on or remained noncommittal.
Trump mentions UN as a partner
in his opening remarks praising the launch of his Board of Peace, Trump made a point to mention the United Nations.
He said “many nations” have been part of establishing the body.
Then he added, “We’ll work with many others, including the United Nations.”
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