UN has coexisted alongside global organisations: UN spokesperson on Trump’s Board of Peace | World News
With US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace on Gaza being seen as a rival, a United Nations spokesperson said the world body has “coexisted” alongside various global institutions and would wait to see “what sort of relationship” it has with the US-led initiative.“ The UN has coexisted alongside any number of organisations. There are regional organisations, subregional organisations, and various defence alliances around the world,” Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said.“ Some of them, we have relationship agreements with. Some of them, we don’t. We would have to see in terms of details what the Board of Peace becomes as it actually is established to know what sort of relationship we would have with it,” he said. Haq was responding to questions Monday at the daily press briefing on the Board of Peace for the redevelopment of Gaza announced by Trump and for which the US president has extended invitations to world leaders to join. When asked whether the secretary-general has received any invitation to be on the Board, Haq …
