Board of Peace takes shape with few details about mandate, membership

Davos, Jan 22 (AP) US President Donald Trump on Thursday inaugurated his newly created Board of Peace here with a handful of founding members but offered few details about its mandate and how the panel will work or might pursue efforts to end global conflicts.

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 UN.

A number of countries, many of them close US allies, have expressed concerns Trump might want the board to supplant or rival the UN

and have either refused to sign on or remained noncommittal. (AP) SCY SCY