The Board of Peace held its inaugural meeting on Thursday, with President Trump vowing to use the Board to make sure the United Nations “runs properly.”
“The Board of Peace is going to almost be looking over the United Nations and making sure it runs properly,” Trump said. He declared that the Board will “strengthen up the United Nations.”
“We’re going to make sure its facilities are good. They need help, and they need help money-wise. We’re going to help them money-wise, and we’re going to make sure the United Nations is viable,” he said. President Trump further stated that the Board of Peace is designed to devise “real solutions.” He added that the Board is “providing a model for how responsible sovereign nations can cooperate to take responsibility for confronting problems in their own regions.”
The United States will make a contribution of $10 billion to the Board of Peace, while other nations, such as Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, and Kuwait, have donated an estimated $7 billion in total.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said during the meeting that the “Gaza situation was impossible to solve under orthodoxy, under existing structures.” He described that with the United Nations’ approval, the Board was formed to “bring these nations together to come up with a very specific solution – solutions – to a very unique and specific problem.”
“We have to get this right,” Rubio added. “There is no Plan B for Gaza. Plan B is going back to war. No one here wants that.”
President Trump declared this week that the “Board of Peace will prove to be the most consequential International Body in History, and it is my honor to serve as its Chairman.”
