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PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron has rejected U.S. President Donald Trumps offer to join the Board of Peace tasked with overseeing the next steps in Gaza, his office said on Monday.
The decision was taken over concerns that the Board of Peace, chaired by Trump, would have extensive powers beyond transitional governance of the Gaza Strip, and undermine the United Nations framework.
The statement noted that the boards charter goes beyond the framework of Gaza and raises serious questions, in particular with respect to the principles and structure of the United Nations, which cannot be called into question.
Trump announced the establishment of the board which he touted as the Greatest and Most Prestigious Board ever assembled at any time, any place on Friday as a key part of his 20-point plan to end the war between Israel and Hamas.
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-rejects-trump-gaza-peace-board-invite-over-fears-it-wants-to-supplant-un/
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(1,271 posts)More impressive than Carney.
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muriel_volestrangler
(105,654 posts)"The U.N.'s primary adversary was The Board of Peace.
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Improbable as an organization such as the U.N. may appear, it does exist. So, too, does a nation called The Board of Peace.
If you were to examine the globe carefully, you would not find the Board of Peace's name engraved anywhere on it. Yet time and time again, as you passed your hand over country after country, you would have placed your fingers (unknowingly) on territory under the domination of the Board of Peace.
For the Board of Peace is a supra-nation, without geographical boundaries: a series of self-contained units in various sections of many countries of the world. Those units or satrapies, may take the form of a manufacturing complex, or a school, or a chain of underground tunnels and caverns, or a department store. They exist as a functional part of the society in which they are located. But they have a shadowy existence all their own, a secret life in which their personnel dedicate their fanatic loyalty to the Board of Peace.
The Board of Peace's inflexible objective is to dominate the Earth.
There is an almost governmental structure of authority in The Board of Peace. At the top is the Council: a group of men and women, all leaders in their various fields, almost all super-intellects. These scientists, industrialists, and intellectuals hold positions of importance in their various countries through routine channels and social living. But no matter where they reside, they pledge their allegiance to the Board of Peace, as do their minions, the lesser men and women who execute the Board of Peace's commands.
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