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US president says newly established Board of Peace will be able to \u2018do pretty much whatever we want to do\u2019.<\/em>
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United States President Donald Trump has formally announced the charter of his so-called Board of Peace<\/a>, a body for resolving international conflicts with a $1bn price tag for permanent membership.
The board, which Trump launched in a signing ceremony in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, was originally conceived to oversee the rebuilding of Gaza after more than two years of Israel\u2019s genocidal war on the strip.
But it appears the board, whose\u00a011-page charter does not mention Gaza once, has morphed into something far more ambitious with the US leader saying it may extend its work to other global crises, a role traditionally performed by the United Nations.
\u201cOnce this board is completely formed, we can do pretty much whatever we want to do,\u201d Trump claimed on stage at the World Economic Forum before signing documents formally establishing the initiative. He was joined on stage by leaders, foreign ministers and other top officials representing 19 other countries, including Argentina, Qatar, Azerbaijan, Indonesia, Hungary, Morocco, Bahrain, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
Some fear the Board of Peace will undermine the UN. Trump appeared to touch on those concerns in his opening remarks at the ceremony, saying the initiative would \u201cwork with many others, including the United Nations\u201d, also listing other important diplomatic issues around the world.
\u201cI\u2019ve always said the United Nations has got tremendous potential, has not used it,\u201d Trump said.
He praised the work of US officials involved in the project for their efforts in establishing a ceasefire in Gaza. \u201cWe have peace in the Middle East. Nobody thought that was possible.\u201d
He added that the board was going to be \u201cvery successful in Gaza\u201d and \u201cwe can spread out to other things as we succeed with Gaza\u201d.
In remarks after Trump\u2019s comments, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the board\u2019s priority was making sure the ceasefire in Gaza endures but the possibilities for the organisation were \u201cendless\u201d.
\u201cThis is not just a Board of Peace. This is a board of action, just like President Trump is a president of action,\u201d he said.
\u201cThis is a group of leaders that are about action.\u201d
Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner, a senior White House adviser and real estate developer, outlined details about the Board of Peace\u2019s development plans in Gaza without mentioning plans for a path towards a Palestinian state.
The \u201cnumber one thing is going to be security. Obviously, we\u2019re working very closely with the Israelis to figure out a way to de-escalation, and the next phase is working with Hamas on demilitarisation,\u201d Kushner said.
\u201cWithout security, nobody\u2019s going to make investments, nobody\u2019s gonna come build there. We need investments in order to start giving jobs,\u201d he said.
The Board of Peace wants to use \u201cfree market principles\u201d to shift Gaza away from dependence on foreign aid, Kushner said, showing a map of the Gaza Strip divided into \u201cresidential\u201d and \u201ccoastal tourism mixed\u201d zones.
The plan includes building 100,000 housing units in Rafah as well as \u201cNew Gaza\u201d, Kushner said, showing a rendering of high-rise coastal towers.
\u201cIn the Middle East, they build cities like this \u2013 two, three million people \u2013 in three years, so stuff like this is very doable if we make it happen,\u201d Kushner said.
He urged both sides in the Gaza conflict to \u201cdo our best to try working together\u201d, calling for a change in \u201cmindset\u201d and \u201cbehaviours\u201d in the region.
\u201cEveryone wants to live peacefully,\u201d he said. \u201cIf we believe peace is possible, then peace really can be possible.\u201d
The event also featured Ali Shaath, the head of a future technocratic Palestinian government in Gaza, announcing that the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza will open in both directions next week.
The Board of Peace will be structured with Trump as its chairman and a \u201cfounding executive council\u201d at the top, which includes Rubio, Kushner, former United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair, US envoy Steve Witkoff, US Deputy National Security Adviser Robert Gabriel, World Bank Group President Ajay Banga and Marc Rowan, CEO of investment firm Apollo Global Management.
According to reports, 50 to 60 countries have been invited to join the board, and up to 25 have agreed to sign on.
Permanent membership on the board, which Trump has billed as \u201cthe most prestigious board ever formed\u201d, will require a contribution of $1bn. US officials have reportedly said such contributions are voluntary although countries would be expected to contribute to Gaza\u2019s reconstruction efforts.
The foreign ministers of Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Turkiye, Saudi Arabia and Qatar said in a joint statement<\/a> on Wednesday that they would be joining the board. Kuwait\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs also said it had accepted Trump\u2019s invitation.
Other countries that have agreed to join include Morocco, Argentina, Hungary, Armenia, Bahrain, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Belarus. China, India, Japan, Thailand and many European nations have yet to respond to their invitations.
British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said the UK opted out of signing on Thursday, joining a growing list of European refusals that includes France, Norway, Sweden and Slovenia.<\/p>\n

The UK has \u201cconcerns about President [Vladimir] Putin being part of something which is talking about peace when we have still not seen any signs from Putin that there will be a commitment to peace in Ukraine\u201d, Cooper told the BBC when asked about Trump\u2019s board.
Questions have been raised about why the Russian president \u2013 and other leaders wanted for war crimes like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu \u2013 have been invited to join the board and the powers it would hand to Trump as inaugural chairman of the board.
David Wearing, a lecturer in international relations at the University of Sussex, told Al Jazeera that the board was \u201cclearly an attempt to render the UN obsolete\u201d and position Trump \u201cin a kind of monarchical or imperial position as the chairman of this new UN\u201d.
Russian state media reported on Thursday that Putin was ready to send $1bn to the Board of Peace to support the Palestinian people and the idea of spending frozen Russian assets to fund the contribution had been discussed with Washington.
Putin, who was due to host Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for talks in Moscow on Thursday, has said he is still consulting with Moscow\u2019s \u201cstrategic partners\u201d before deciding to commit.
Meanwhile, Netanyahu has agreed to join<\/a> the board after his office had earlier criticised the composition of a subordinate Palestinian technocratic committee tasked with overseeing Gaza.
However, there is no Palestinian representative on the Board of Peace.
As several countries get on board, Palestinians in Gaza are less optimistic about the initiative, Al Jazeera\u2019s Tareq Abu Azzoum said, reporting from Gaza on Thursday.
\u201cThere is a sense that runs deep among Palestinians that Palestinians are being discussed as a problem to be managed, not as people with rights to be fully addressed,\u201d Abu Azzoum said.
\u201cPeople on the ground believe the formation of the new Board of Peace feels detached from their reality.\u201d
Palestinians \u201cfelt that turning a new chapter does not sound as easy as the Americans think\u201d, he added.
In his remarks on Thursday, Trump praised the amount of aid that had flowed into Gaza since the ceasefire was agreed \u2013 comments that are starkly at odds with the reality on the ground amid repeated warnings from the UN and international aid organisations of dire shortages of food, water, medicines and other supplies entering the enclave.<\/p>\n

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