00:01The EU will send the Commissioner for the Mediterranean, Dubravka Shritsa, to represent the EU at the first meeting of
00:07Trump's Board of Peace in Washington on Thursday.
00:10The European Commission has said Shritsa will only participate in a specific part of the meeting dedicated to Gaza and
00:17is not joining as an official sitting member of the Board.
00:19Italy, Romania, Greece and Cyprus have all accepted invitations by the Trump administration to participate as observers.
00:26Only two EU member states, Hungary and Bulgaria, have accepted invitations to sit as members.
00:33An EU official said that the bloc wants to play a role in the reconstruction of Gaza, despite numerous concerns
00:39over the Board's executive setup,
00:42which was initially conceived as a vehicle to rebuild the territory, but now says its mandate is global peace.
00:49The inclusion of Russian President Vladimir Putin on the Board also makes membership politically untenable for most EU countries.
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