Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters Sunday he has agreed in principle to affix U.S. President Donald Trump’s controversial “Board of Peace,” meant to support the reconstruction of Gaza.
Carney told reporters in Doha that Trump asked him about joining this board “a couple of weeks ago.”
“There’s a humanitarian tragedy in Gaza that’s ongoing and Canada will make every effort possible to handle this example,“ he said at a news conference at an Islamic Art museum within the capital of the Gulf country.
He said the president put the query to him a couple of weeks ago and he said yes and that he and Canada will do every thing it might to bring peace to the region.
Carney said there remains to be not unimpeded humanitarian aid flowing into help the people of Gaza and that may be a “precondition for moving forward.”
The prime minister said details still have to be worked out on how precisely the board and the financing will work.
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The Board of Peace is a component of the Trump-brokered peace plan that saw a ceasefire take hold between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
The creation of latest organization has raised concerns that it could deal a blow to the United Nations system of international cooperation that Trump has long argued is ineffective and dysfunctional, and place Trump answerable for how the cash is distributed.
The text of the charter, published by various international media outlets, states there may be a “need for a more nimble and effective international peace-building body” than the UN.
The board can be chaired by Trump himself, and its executive makeup includes Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Trump’s Middle East special envoy Steve Witkoff, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, and former U.K. prime minister Tony Blair.
Earlier within the month Trump withdrew from dozens of international organizations, a lot of that are related to the UN.
Carney said working through the peace board is “consistent” with Canadian goals to make sure “unimpeded” humanitarian aid can enter the territory and work toward a two-state solution.
“We’ll explore every avenue as a way to try this,” he said.
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