Trump seeking to forge ‘new UN’: Lula

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva accused Donald Trump on Friday of trying to create “a new UN” with his proposed “Board of Peace.”

The veteran leftist joins other world leaders who have avoided signing up for Trump’s new global conflict resolution organisation, where a permanent seat costs $1 billion and the chairman is Trump himself.

“Instead of fixing” the United Nations, “what’s happening? President Trump is proposing to create a new UN where only he is the owner,” Lula said.

Trump unveiled his “Board of Peace” at the World Economic Forum in Davos Thursday, joined on stage by leaders and officials from 19 countries to sign its founding charter.

Lula defended multilateralism against what he called “the law of the jungle” in global affairs.

His remarks come a day after he spoke by phone with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, who urged his counterpart to safeguard the “central role” of the United Nations in international affairs.