Broad mandate of Trump’s Board of Peace sets it up for rivalry with UN

Financial Times: Body was originally planned to oversee Gaza but charter’s expansive wording suggests it could mediate in other conflicts.

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The charter, details of which were first reported by Haaretz, gives wide-ranging powers to Trump as chair of the Board of Peace, allowing him to appoint as well as remove member states — a decision that could only be overturned by a two-thirds majority of members.

It appears to give him a veto on the Board’s decisions, which it says will be “made by a majority of the member states present and voting, subject to the approval of the chairman, who may also cast a vote in his capacity as chairman in the event of a tie”…