UK to hold off on joining Trump’s Peace Council

British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has said the UK will not yet be signing up to US President Donald Trump’s proposed Board of Peace over concerns about Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s possible participation, the BBC writes.

Cooper told the BBC the UK had been invited to join the board but “won’t be one of the signatories today” at a planned ceremony at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

The foreign secretary described the board as a “legal treaty that raises much broader issues” than the board’s initial focus on ending the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.