Brazil’s Lula says Trump is attempting to ‘create a new UN’

Lula’s comments travel arsenic Trump invites warfare crimes fishy Netanyahu to articulation ‘Board of Peace’.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva has accused his United States counterpart Donald Trump of wanting to make “a caller UN”, days aft the US president launched his caller “Board of Peace” inaugural successful Switzerland.

“Instead of fixing” the United Nations, “what’s happening? President Trump is proposing to make a caller UN wherever lone helium is the owner,” Lula said successful a code connected Friday.

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Speaking successful Rio Grande bash Sul, Lula besides said that Trump “wants to tally the satellite done Twitter”.

“It’s remarkable. Every time helium says something, and each time the satellite is talking astir what helium said,” Lula said, according to Brazil’s Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper.

Lula defended multilateralism against what helium called “the instrumentality of the jungle” successful planetary affairs and warned that “the UN charter is being torn”.

Lula’s remarks travel a time aft helium spoke by telephone with Chinese person Xi Jinping, who urged his Brazilian counterpart to safeguard the “central role” of the UN successful planetary affairs.

His comments besides travel arsenic the White House withdraws the US from dozens of UN bodies and Trump launches his “Board of Peace”, portion imposing his “America First” docket connected planetary authorities and commercialized done tariffs and subject threats to specified a grade that allies of Washington question whether they tin present spot the US.

Trump launched the committee with a signing ceremonial successful Davos, Switzerland, connected Thursday, during the yearly acme of the World Economic Forum, different planetary assemblage that has progressively presented itself arsenic an alternate to the UN system.

Members of the board see Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is accused of warfare crimes by the International Criminal Court and whose forces person killed much than 300 unit members from the UN bureau for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, successful Gaza.

The US primitively said that the “Board of Peace” would oversee the rebuilding of Gaza aft much than 2 years of Israel’s genocidal warfare connected the besieged enclave, but the board’s 11-page charter does not notation Gaza, suggesting its interests whitethorn person expanded successful scope.

The UN, which was created successful the aftermath of World War II, has said it is experiencing backing shortfalls for its humanitarian and human rights activities, arsenic the US and different Western countries redirect backing distant from planetary assistance towards military spending.

The satellite assemblage operates connected a regular fund of astir $3.72bn annually, of which the US was required to lend $820m successful 2025, though it has fallen down connected payments nether the Trump administration.

By contrast, the draught charter of the Board of Peace says that countries would beryllium required to wage $1bn if they privation to stay members for much than 3 years.