Afrasianet - Representatives from 50 countries attended the inaugural meeting of the Peace Council launched by US President Donald Trump, but only 26 of the invited countries signed the council's charter, prompting Trump to wave pressure on the reticents to sign by asserting that "everyone will join in the end."
The Executive Council and the establishment, amendment and dissolution of the entities affiliated with the Council, in addition to being considered the sole reference for the interpretation and application of the Charter, the ratification of its amendment, and even its right to dissolve the entire Council!The European
Union's foreign policy chief, Kaya Callas, criticized the council, saying that it is a personal tool in Trump's hands to exempt him from accountability to the Palestinians or the United Nations, and many European countries expressed doubts about the goals of the council, and confusion emerged among Europeans with the French Foreign Ministry, announcing in a statement on Friday, that it was surprised that the European Commission sent a delegate to the Council in Washington, noting that the delegation does not have a mandate to represent member states.
On the issue of Gaza, for which the Council was supposed to be established, it was announced Trump has allocated $10 billion to the council to finance the reconstruction of Gaza, and the White House has announced that it will receive about $6.5 billion in pledges from other countries, and that the money will be deposited in a special fund at the World Bank, with the council managing the funds, but Trump linked the promised "reconstruction" to "Hamas's declaration of its full readiness to disarm it," giving it a 60-day deadline, supported by Israeli threats to resume the war.
The presence of Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar at the council meeting was to pass the time-out, raise the ceiling of Israeli demands while the settlement realities are being imposed on the ground, and to seek to inflame the possibility of war against Iran, thus achieving the Israeli government's ultimate goals:
Trump reopened the door for the council to replace the United Nations by once again hinting that its role might go beyond the United Nations in the future, and used the meeting to follow up on the chapters of the "war council" against Iran by also giving its rulers time to make a "meaningful deal" or face "bad things."
Hungary's Viktor Orbán and Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who praised their role in resolving international disputes, so that the meeting seemed like Trump's platform to subjugate the world, and a place for world leaders to pledge allegiance to him.
