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The Vatican will not take part in Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’
The Vatican will not participate in President Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace” initiative, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s top diplomatic official, said.
Parolin added that efforts to handle crisis situations should be managed by the United Nations. The Holy See “will not participate in the Board of Peace because of its particular nature, which is evidently not that of other States”, Parolin said.
“One concern is that at the international level, it should above all be the UN that manages these crisis situations. This is one of the points on which we have insisted.”
Pope Leo, the first US pope and a critic of some of Trump’s policies, was invited to join the board in January.
Board of thieves, pedophiles and war criminals.
The controversial “Board of Peace” first formal meeting will take place tomorrow in Washington, DC, as beleaguered Palestinians in the war-battered territory wait for the second phase of the “ceasefire” agreement to come into force fully.
Since President Trump launched the controversial board at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, at least 19 countries have signed its founding charter.
The board, of which Trump is the chairman, was initially designed to oversee the Gaza “ceasefire” and the territory’s reconstruction, despite the US providing at least $21.7bn in military aid to Israel since its war on the Palestinian enclave began.
But the board’s purpose has since morphed into resolving all sorts of international conflicts, triggering fears that the US president wants to create a rival to the UN. Trump has said the first meeting would allocate $5bn in humanitarian and reconstruction aid for Gaza.
