Trump’s Peace Board launches its website
International Desk, February 24 (EFE)
The Peace Board, created by US President Donald Trump to end international conflicts, starting with the Gaza conflict, has launched its website, which highlights as a founding principle that lasting peace requires common-sense solutions.
The website (https://boardofpeace.org/) underscores the importance of “moving away from approaches and institutions that have too often failed” and emphasizes the need for a “more agile and effective” international body, with a coalition of states committed to “effective action.”
Many approaches to achieving peace, according to these principles, “foster continued dependency and institutionalize crisis rather than helping people overcome it.”
The website highlights the 28 founding members of this new body. These include, in addition to the United States, Israel, Argentina, El Salvador, Egypt, Hungary, Qatar, Paraguay, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates.
Most are allies of Trump, while major powers and almost all European countries have been reluctant to join, arguing that the organization weakens the role of the UN.
Each member state must be represented by its head of state or government for a term of no more than three years, a clause that does not apply if the country in question contributes more than $1 billion in cash (€848 million) during the first year after the founding charter comes into effect.
The Peace Board’s charter was signed on January 22 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and its first meeting took place on February 19 in Washington.
The website indicates that its executive council includes World Bank Group President Ajay Banga; former British Prime Minister Tony Blair; US Secretary of State Marco Rubio; Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law; and the US Special Envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff.
The Peace Board defines itself as “an international organization that seeks to promote stability, restore reliable and lawful governance, and ensure lasting peace in conflict-affected or threatened areas,” and promises to carry out its mission “in accordance with international law.”
Its website includes presentations made about this new body both in the U.S. capital and at the Swiss meeting, and has a section for press releases and announcements.
“This Board has the opportunity to become one of the most momentous bodies ever created,” reads a quote from the U.S. president highlighted on the page, who in another statement believes that, together,There is a real opportunity to end “decades of suffering”.
